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When my mother became homeless and moved into my one-bedroom apartment.
New Episodes Every Week.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com, https://bit.ly/3UvV0mi
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
A piece I wrote a week after my mother passed. Also, forgive me for being late the past couple weeks… I’ve had something weird going on with my throat.
New Episodes Every Week.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com, https://bit.ly/3seQ0GT
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
My mother gives me a pep talk when I felt depressed after taking Sudafed, at the same time as an intoxicated man attempts to cross the street.
New Episodes Every Week.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com, https://bit.ly/3seQ0GT
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
A conversation about our one unadulterated drop of god.
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com, https://bit.ly/3Ri3cET
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
On the phone with my mother when my son was a toddler.
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com, https://bit.ly/3Ri3cET
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
A story about breaking cycles of dysfunction.
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com.
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
When my ceiling fan almost catches on fire, I receive guidance from my mother.
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com.
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
This piece chronicles a difficult event that took place years ago when I was trying to support my mother who had no other means of support for her mental health than to self-medicate. The piece is also about how our mental health system isn’t always equipped to be there for people who need more support than to be kept alive and medicated, and how in our society, many times, support for oneself has to come from within.
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com.
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
What I Did With Guilt
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicalaurelkane.com.
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
Conversation with My Mother at 3 A.M. on Her Birthday, After I Was Crying and Asking for a Sign that She was Here with Me
New Episodes Every Monday.
If you’d like to read the piece instead, please visit the episode website at www.jessicakane.com.
All pieces written, recorded and produced by Jessica Laurel Kane.
If you’d like to hear my other podcast for kids and parents, visit www.onceuponanupset.com.
From the publisher's feed
My mother passed unexpectedly in 2016. She was brilliant and hysterically funny but also suffered a lot. In A Woman Called Mother, I share the stories and scenes I collected from our time together, and also the stories and scenes I’ve been collecting from my present perspective since becoming a mother myself.
I’m taking a break from posting because I’m working on finishing my memoir about my relationship with my mother. I will update once I have a release date for the book. Thank you!
(I also have a podcast for kids and parents called Once Upon an Upset.)