Welcome to Round four of the Parenting Roundabout podcasts for the week of April seventeen.
I'm Catherine the Leko and I'm here with Nicole Ritis Hello and Terry Morrow.
Hello. As moms of teens and young adults, we've survived those little
kid days, yet we're still rethinking the decisions we've made all through our kids'
lives and worrying about what's going on right now. Today's Thursday, which means
it's time to give in to our obsessing, and today we are obsessing about
family stories. So Terry came across an article about a book by Diane Ladd
and Laura Dern, mother Daughter Actors, which is coming out at the end
of the month, and Audible is already sending me emails saying do you want
this? How about this? How about this? How about this book?
Like this book? Don't you think gotta gotta credit? Burning a hole in
your pocket? Turn it on over. I always have credits burning a hole
in my podcast I at twelve time and so they burn a hole into my
pocket for a year. It's a deepole. But but this this one sounded
interesting both as a book to read and as an audiobook. To listen to,
because of course they narrated, and it was saying that Diane Ladd,
the mom, had some health complications and had to walk a lot, and
so Laura was walking with her and they were just talking about stories from the
mom's life and having all sorts of meaningful conversations and then also talking about recipes,
and it wound up they wound up sort of converting it into a book
about because they're faus, because they're famous, that's why there's a book.
And you know what, probably I will take that credit out of my pocket
and flip it over in their direction, because why not? It sounds interesting?
But I also was thinking, I took a lot of walks with my
mom at one time. I'm a writer. Why did I get a book
out of it? A bottom? But I still could have written it,
and then I would remember things that I have long forgotten. And you know,
then if I you know, my daughter and I have long, long
conversations. Of course they're mostly me talking, but she talks sometimes, And
what sort of book would make out of my conversations? And what would she
title it? My mother won't shut up? But have you guys ever thought
about that? There's stories in your family that you think might one day be
book fodder if you were a famous person and you could get in touch with
the publisher, or is it just maybe you could write a blog post.
We don't necessarily have book material, but we have a list of christianisms.
We call it that would be lovely because our daughter make Yourself a little book
for some reason, and I think between Josh and I where my son and
I were tracking it on a shared note because she comes up with these sayings
and it's like it's like a regular every day saying, but she twists it
in a way that it's just it's funny. It's so funny, like I
don't get it. I'm not sure what it's a result of. She just
has these little quirky sayings that we all laugh and yeah, so we're saving
that for something one day. We're not sure what, but it's a very
they're very quirky and funny and it makes us laugh. I don't think anybody
else would laugh, but it makes us laugh. Well, there's been been
people who wasn't there like a book and then a TV series based on the
book that was I don't remember if this was the title of the book or
just how we have to say on a podcast. But it was like bleap.
My dad says, yes, yes, but he was I think that
guy was already a comedy writer right before he got a book contract. Right,
So you know, it's not unheard of that you could make a little
book of interesting things that somebody says, right, Definitely, a blog post,
it could be, might be yeah, yeah, series of greeting cards
maybe, yes, greeting cards paid to day calendar. Yeah, yes,
that's more like it, and it goes up and distribute them to your family
and friends. Yeah. Well, you know I always do, and I've
mentioned this has been my roundabout round up by them as like a daily calendar
of photos that I make at a company called Social Print Studio. So you
can do that and it'll just be it'll be you know, aphorisms that he
has to have three hund five of them, right, so tell her to
upper production or maybe maybe you could do like one a week, depends on
how many you have. Yeah, well, I mean repeat, I'm about
halfway through the year. Nobody's going to remember. Yes, our our photo
calendar for sure gets there's repeats. Yeah. But you know another thing that
I have mentioned on Roundabout round Up that is relevant. Here is the story
worth yes, where it sends an email to it sends you a question by
email every week and you answer a lot of pressure. I remember that.
Yeah, and you could you could change the question or you could you know,
like not answer it or you know, do six weeks at a time
or whatever it was. But yeah, I did that for both of my
parents and it was It worked really well, except for the part where I
proof reredit like thousand times and then there's a mistake on the cover one of
them. Yea, I was so upset. Always a mistake and it's always
in some extremely visible place. Yes, but that was a very cool way
to collect a lot of um memories and just you know, sometimes it was
memories like talk about your parents or your education or whatever, and sometimes it
was like you know, your favorite food or your favorite book or whatever.
You know it it was a combination of those kind of things. So that
that was definitely worthwhile. Yeah, and it's a cool way to do it.
That's for the non salabs that can't get you pay them to make it
instead of getting think a little advance and royalties for sure, and an audiobook
with your voices on it. Yes, yes, I don't know. I
feel like my parents probably had stories that would be interesting to read, and
I remember some, but I don't know if I remember them right, or
I heard it correctly, if I remembered it correctly, if I'm making it
up right. And it's so frustrating because I, you know, I share
my dad with my half sister, but nobody was with me when I was
growing up, so anything that was happening then, I was the only witness
too, and I my memory is bad, and things that happened before,
you know, in their younger lives, I don't know what is. I
tell stories and then I think afterwards, I don't even know if I were
remembering that right. So if I could have gotten my mom to tell me
things and recorded them or written them down, it might have been an interesting
book to read. I feel like they had interest experiences in their youth and
in their adulthood and in meeting each other, and you know, and of
course in being parenting to me that chapters and chapters of gloriousness. Who would
not want to read about that? Oh? Interesting? But even so,
even before I feel like they had sort of atypical stories. And my daughter
has certainly some atypical stories that she can't remember so from her early childhood.
And I recently got a book. It's called The Hard Parts by Axana Masters.
She's a paralympian, very successful Paralympic athlete, and she was I know
a little bit of her because when I we adopted the kids, I was
part of a email group of parents who adopted from Russia and the Ukraine,
and her mother was in her adoptive mother was in that, and so we
hold church stories about the surgeries she had to have and the problems she had
and all that. And I started listening to this book and I thought this
be great because I'll, you know, she'll she was old enough to remember
some of her experience in the orphanage, and so I'll have a sense of
what my daughter might have gone through. And I listened to a little bit
and it was horrible. And it's like, I can't any more of this.
Yeah, I'm glad you got my book money, Xana. I'm glad
you're please. I hope your book is successful. But I ye, yeah,
yeah, And I don't know that my daughters was horrible. I mean,
everybody seemed nice, but there were some things. So I would love
to be able to share her story. I think that would be much more
interesting than anything that has ever happened to me in my life. But it's
locked up. Yeah. Yeah, it's very deep and I don't think it
comes out without trauma. So let's just let it stave there. Not worth
a book contract. Oh well, yeah, well we have our podcast where
we talk about it all the time. You have an archive you might have
to waste going back, many lawyers our living resource. We can keep you
listening for a long long time, right, aren't we generous? We haven't
thrown any recipes in it, though, maybe we need to add some recipes.
Maybe that's what's holding us back. You guys got a good banana pudding
recipe, that's all. That's all that's separating us from a lucrative book contract.
That's right. You know, they said, well, we would give
you guys a book, but you know, Laura Dern and Diane lad have
recipes in their story, and it's you know, what can we do?
Yeah? I don't progrudge him. I don't cook. My husband cooks would
have to be his book. He's famously very chatty and that's right. Loves
to talk about himself. Yeah, that would not go well. So you
just have to read. You have to follow my son's face spookfeed and he
will tell you at least what we eat every night. Yes, recipes the
other night. Oh this is apropool of nothing. But he said that we
were having a stew with bacon and sweet potatoes. And I mentioned that to
my husband. He said, oh, well, I didn't put the bacon,
And I said, but honey, it says on Facebook now. No,
I think he just threw some bacon bits from a jar. You know,
you gotta please your audience. You gotta gotta need the expectations. Oh
well, well, is that the end of our story for today? I
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