Thanks For Being Here - Things That My Mother Supposes

Christine Wenzel shares her essay "Things That My Mother Supposes", telling the story of how she and her mother moved from tense exchanges to finding real understanding before her mom's passing in 2020. Through funny and touching memories – from her mom's dodging goodnight kisses to planning her own funeral – Christine captures how complicated parent-child relationships can transform over time. If you have a complicated relationship or family story you'd like to share, email us at hello@kellycorrigan.com. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to Kelly Corrigan Wonders, a place for people who like to laugh while they think and find it useful to look closely at ourselves and our weird ways in the hopes that knowing more and feeling more will help us do more and be better. Author of 4 New York Times bestsellers about family life, Kelly wonders about loads of stuff: is knowing more always good? Can we trust our gut? How does change actually happen? We only book nice people who have a sense of humor and know things worth knowing. Each episode ends with Kelly’s shortlist of takeaways, appropriate for refrigerator doors, bulletin boards and notes to your children.