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Listen To Your Mother

Tuesday, January 22, 2013

'Listen to Your Mother' Show Auditions Come to Town

The live-reading of essays on motherhood is looking for this year's stars.

Auditions for the “Listen to Your Mother” show, a live performance in which participants write and read aloud original essays on motherhood, are coming soon to Northern Virginia. “The audience relates to the motherhood stories and hears perspectives they had never considered before,” said Kate Coveny Hood, producer for the DC region’s version of the show. Last year, Vienna's Anna Whiston Donaldson participated in the show. The live reading in celebration of Mother's Day will take place at Crystal City’s Synetic Theater in April. There are 23 versions of the show nationwide. Hood, who lives in Reston, said she organized the regional "Listen to Your Mother" reading last year after being inspired by a Wisconsin blogger Ann Imig who founded …

Saturday, May 5, 2012

Local Mom Featured in D.C. Show On Motherhood

Anna Whiston Donaldson part of production that gives local bloggers the mic for Mother's Day

When she started her blog four-and-a-half years ago, Anna Whiston Donaldson was looking to chronicle the funny adventures and conversations of her two children, reflect on faith and life, and encourage other moms on the wild ride of motherhood. Above all, the former English teacher, who now runs a small bookstore, wanted the "wife, mother, sister, friend, lazy root toucher-upper, and champion of the underdog" she was in everyday life to come through in her writing, "so that someone who meets me gets the same Anna she knows from the blog." When she lost her 12-year-old son Jack in an accident near the family's Vienna home last September, Donaldson did not abandon that desire to keep her writing authentic. Instead, she continued to write, …

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