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Here's a woman with an eye for babies! Ann Tudor tells stories about babies and toddlers, whether grandchildren or met-by-chance little ones out in the world, along with a few memories from her own childhood. Always sensitive to the child's point of view, these stories are sometimes amusing, sometimes heartbreaking, but always intriguing.

Follow author and narrator Ann Tudor as she moves from one stage of life to the next, looking for the lesson as well as for the beauty of the moment. Her stories are informed by the varied experiences of her life: She has been a teacher, wife, mother, grandmother, copy editor, fiber artist, practitioner of the healing arts, pianist, aspiring cellist, and, underlying it all, observer/writer.

From plum slice to washing dishes, from gluttony to floor-mopping, Ann Tudor examines the joy and the sorrow, the guilt and the satisfaction of domestic life, all of it related in her usual wry voice.

Ann Tudor shares with us the farmhouse-style Thanksgiving Day feast of her childhood ”a groaning board attended by cousins, aunts, uncles, and one gruff grandfather. The food - and the unique family recipes Ann reveals - is what really counts!

Making use of neighborhood trees, cheerful robins, and bulb-hunting squirrels, as an urban dweller Ann Tudor - through her essays and poetry - works at staying in tune with what really counts: the sustaining beauty of the natural world.

With wry, dry humor, Ann Tudor explores the physical and mental phenomena of aging, chronicling the incremental changes that assail us on our way to the Land of Old. Beneath it all is a deep awareness of the possibility of spiritual development as we move toward the inevitable end.

In the run-up to Christmas, the point of the game has always been to find the parents' stash of not-yet-wrapped Christmas presents. But what a let-down it is if you actually find them! In these stories, you experience Christmas in a rural Midwest town in the 1940s and 1950s. Six rowdy children approach the day with a mixture of rampant greed, enforced piety, and a hunger for family traditions even as they are being created.

Eileen, my mother (we called her Eileen instead of "mother"), always seemed a bit bemused to find herself raising six lively children in in a small Midwestern town. Our father used to say they had three before they knew what was causing it. Nevertheless, when life sent her down this unexpected path, Eileen faced the challenges of bringing up six rowdy kids with humor, a generous if naive spirit, and a lot of creativity.

This humorous original-for-audio program offers seven tales of near disasters, reminders that youth, strange circumstances, or a moment of stupidity can lead to catastrophe. Yet Rosie evades the frightening consequences of her foolishness and continues, unscathed on her journey.

Tales From My Table is a collection of 12 true stories about food. Bittersweet, funny, and thought-provoking, the stories the way in which food influences our lives. We learn about relationships, and life, and the thrill of eating what you love to eat and cooking what you love to cook. Imagine Ann Lamott and Garrison Keillor meeting under a full moon for a midnight snack.

Often amusing, always poignant, Ann Tudor's "In The Kitchen With The Ancient Cook" is a collection of stories on cooking and growing older.

In "Encounters With The World," Ann Tudor offers the listener her uniquely poignant poetry on the beauty of the moment—a falling leave, a soft winter's snow, the glow of a summer moon.