Publisher, HighBridge Audio (March 2010)

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“[Motherhood] is a hoot!! Beginning with the first story of Dwayne receiving a phone call from his meddling mother and continuing on and on....this close look at motherhood is poignant while hilarious. Give it to your mother, your grandmother, your aunt. And hey, Mothers, give it to your children so they can walk in your shoes! The perfect gift!” —Book Vault

“Lasts longer than flowers, has far fewer calories than chocolates and is definitely more entertaining than either.” —BookPage

A Prairie Home Companion celebrates motherhood as only they can: with equal parts laughter and love—and maybe just a little guilt.

Collected from live radio broadcasts of A Prairie Home Companion, these humorous and heart-warming stories and songs celebrate the ups and downs of motherhood. Includes the News from Lake Wobegon, and guest appearances from Robin and Linda Williams, Inga Swearingen, Vern Sutton, Prudence Johnson, the Rankin Family, and more.

“She brought you forth out of the cloud of genetics and fed and clothed you and taught you to wipe yourself and say Please and Thank You and never expected you to pay her back, only that you behave appropriately and try to make something of yourself and not land in prison but if you had, she’d love you because after all she’s your Mother.” —Garrison Keillor

Contents:

Disk One

• Mom: Facebook
• “Mama’s Hungry Eyes”
• How to Write a Letter to Mom
• “Shirley World”
• Mother’s Day Quilt
• Beebopareebop Rhubarb Pie: Mother’s Day Dinner
• “Mama Told Me Not to Come”
• Butter
• “Trees”
• The News from Lake Wobegon: Scrambled Eggs for Mom
• “Hush Little Baby”

Disk Two

• Mother’s Day Ballads
• The Lives of the Cowboys: A Visit from Mom
• “My Mother Was a Lady”
• Mother’s Day: Creationism
• “Tell My Ma” (Includes “Molly Rankin’s Reel”)
• Mom: The Melon Baller
• Mother’s Day: The Prison Break
• The News from Lake Wobegon: Mother-Daughter Dinner

About Garrison Keillor: Garrison Keillor is Americas favorite storyteller. For the more than 35 years, as the host of A Prairie Home Companion, he has captivated millions of public radio listeners with his weekly News from Lake Wobegon monologues. A Prairie Home Companion now reaches over four million listeners on more than 558 public radio stations, America One, the Armed Forces Networks, Sirius Satellite Radio, and via a live audio webcast.

Keillor is also the author of several books and a frequent contributor to national publications including Time, The New Yorker, and National Geographic, in addition to writing his own syndicated column. He has been awarded a National Humanities Medal from the National Endowment of the Humanities. When not touring, he resides in St. Paul, Minnesota.