Ira Glass
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
every night of my life until I left for college.
When Robin came home for Thanksgiving that year and confronted her mother with the startling fact that everyone else ate things besides chicken growing up, her mother just shrugged her shoulders and said, you like chicken.
Even when they'd gone out to restaurants, Robin ordered chicken.
When Harriet Lerner was a girl, her family was going through some lean years.
There wasn't much money for holiday gifts.
Harriet was seven, and she wanted a bike.
But when they came downstairs on Christmas morning, there were only two small boxes waiting for them.
The box became Harriet's prized possession.
She kept it on display in her room through elementary school, through high school.
If friends asked her about it, she'd say, oh yeah, it was painted by trained monkeys.