THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26, 2017 NOON on WPKN 89.5 FM and streaming at wpkn.org
Host: Duo Dickinson
They come and go and come back: our children.
If you decode to have kids they change everything including the place where you live.
First you create a terrarium
Then a playpen
Then a workshop
Then a restaurant, study hall and laundry – and an Entertainment Center
Then a vacant room,
How do homes react to parents having kids?
Buy one?
Move to a bigger one?
Make a bigger one?
Create space(s) for every need and desire?
Change the entry, kitchen, family room? basement? Attic?
and when they leave?
Today HOME PAGE welcomes 3 families in the form of one of each’s founding members: – an empty nester, mother of a preteen/soon to be an adult, and the mother of a young family: the full spectrum of “life with kids” If you decide to have them, your children they change lives, forever.
In studio is Eva Geetz: Today, we welcome Eva Geetz in studio: Eva is from New Haven, CT, where she’s earned a local reputation for being contrary. She has become fairly good at making yogurt from scratch since then. Has yet to make homemade ketchup or Smith Island Cake, but did recently attempt piecrust for the first time and Jane Stern rated the resulting chess pie 95/100. She writes about life as she knows it, now and then, at thisoldhausfrau.com and a self-proclaimed “East Rock Matron” who is full-on accommodating all the stresses and joys proclaimed by all.
Calling in will be Kurt Andersen – renowned writer, critic and Dad. Kurt’s latest books are Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-year History and, with Alec Baldwin, You Can’t Spell America Without Me: The Really Tremendous Inside Story of My Fantastic First Year as President Donald J. Trump. Kurt is host and co-creator of the Peabody Award-winning public radio program and podcast Studio 360. He also co-founded Spy magazine, among other startups, and served as editor-in-chief of New York. He has been a critic and cultural columnist for The New Yorker and Time. He has also created television shows and pilots, and written screenplays and stage plays. He currently contributes regularly to Vanity Fair, Time, and The New York Times.
Lastly calling in is the younger side of Child Invasion: Fiona Boucher – Fiona is a graduate of Smith College. After working in fundraising for a number of years, she quit her job after her second child was born to spend more time with her boys. She lives in Hamden with her husband Justin and their two young sons.
