A Woman Called Mother

A Woman Called Mother

By Jessica Laurel KaneReligion & SpiritualityArtsFictionSpiritualityDramaPerforming Arts
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A Woman Called Mother episodes

  • Passing Through (Encore)

    Passing through is a piece I wrote about my grandmother's husband dying. In this piece I was thinking about generations. About my own family. About what our parents and grandparents leave us in our emotional inheritance. I was thinking how when my grandmother died, she had not spoken with my mother in 20 years. How my grandmother hardly spoke to her own mother. So much pain and so much dysfunction. So much unfinished business.

    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.

    28 min
  • Filling the Urn Necklace (Encore)

    Some insights I had while trying to do something meaningful with my mother’s ashes.

    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.

    0 min
  • An Old Conversation With My Mother When I Was Pregnant

    An Old Conversation with my mother when I was pregnant and she didn't know how to retrieve a text message.

    New Episodes Every Monday.

    If you’d like to read the transcript, please visit the episode website at https://bit.ly/3vhR9PR

    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.

    6 min
  • Libraries of Trauma (Encore)

    “The thing about trauma is that if you don’t get it out and identify it as trauma, you risk continuing to cope with trauma simply because you might not have the sense to recognize that’s what it is.”

    — from 'Libraries of trauma'

    New Episodes Every Monday.

    If you’d like to read the transcript, please visit the episode website at https://bit.ly/36iYjd7.

    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.

    10 min
  • An Old Pep Talk With My Mother

    A pep talk with my mother when I was feeling hurt from not getting approval from someone.

    If you’d like to read the transcript, please visit the episode website at https://bit.ly/3QjNN7L

    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.

    2 min
  • My Mother in the Big City of Paranoids (Encore)

    This story is about the time my paranoid mother became homeless and took a bus to NYC to be with me. It was published by So to Speak Journal: language + feminism + art where it was nominated for the Pushcart Prize. It can be read there at https://bit.ly/32qttgv.

    New Episodes Every Monday.

    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.

    44 min
  • The Heart of Cruella de Vil (Encore)

    The Heart of Cruella de Vil

    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.

    8 min

About A Woman Called Mother

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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.