Faithful readers might remember that back in March 2006, a clip of my son's StoryCorps interview of me was broadcast on NPR's Morning Edition , to an overwhelming response (we were one of the top three most responded to stories on StoryCorps that year).
StoryCorps was founded by Dave Isay, whose radio documentary work has won nearly every award in broadcasting including five Peabody Awards, two Robert F. Kennedy Awards, the Edward R. Murrow award, and two Livingston Awards for young journalists. He recently came out with a book of StoryCorps interviews called Listening is An Act of Love. (And if you buy this gift set from Starbucks, you'll get the booklet "10 beloved stories" which includes our interview!)
Anyway...last night our local NPR station, WSHU had an event with Dave Isay, and I GOT TO MEET HIM!
Even better, when I called WSHU to see if I could meet Mr. Isay before the event started so I could get him to sign the zillions of books I've bought as presents, and explained that J and I were in the booklet, they invited me to the VIP fundraiser reception beforehand. (Since I never get invited to VIP anything, I'm going to just keep repeating VIP, VIP, VIP. Did I mention that it was a VIP reception?)
And even better, he played our interview to the assembled VIP's and then asked me to speak to them. So I was a VIP VIP - with a mic, no less!
The best part was hearing how everyone at StoryCorps just adores J - showing that they are all people of great wisdom and judgment.
I brought my camera but was too excited to take a picture. So you'll just have to imagine short little me standing next to tall Dave Isay:
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By: Sarah Darer Littman,
on 11/28/2007
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By: Sarah Darer Littman,
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