Miriam Toews
speaker
139 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 26 Jul
Miriam Toews’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The difference between him and Georgia in the talking department is huge.
Georgia will come home from school and literally reenact her entire day so that she's telling me about it almost in real time, hour after hour.
Owen, on the other hand, might tell me that his day was good, even if it was bad.
But usually he just shrugs and makes an I-don't-know kind of sound.
And then he'll head down to the basement and play his guitar.
So, like, do some of your friends have girlfriends?
And do you ever think that you'd like to have a girlfriend?
What do you think they think?
Like, how would they describe you to their friends, do you think?
Do you think you do know, but you just don't really want to talk about it with me?
I can dig it.
I've learned over time not to worry too much about his silence, although it used to drive me crazy.
I wondered if maybe he'd turn out to be a psychopath, although I'm not sure why I associate evil with silence.
Anyway, I'm getting better with it.
Cassidy often reassures me by saying stuff like, it's a guy thing, or he's a 15-year-old boy, what do you expect?
He told me that when he was Owen's age, he sat in his bedroom by himself for hours on end, typing page after page of angry vitriol against the world on an old manual typewriter until his fingers bled.
And he seems really happy now.
I realize my kids sound like boy and girl stereotypes.
Owen is taciturn and into sports, and Georgia is chatty and prone to the occasional crying jag.
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