Friday, November 4, 2005
Maybe radio...So because of Mark's
prodding, I sent a truncated version of the "forgotten places" post to
NPR's All Things Considered a couple of days ago. Yesterday their
producer called me. I called her twice and left messages, and
today she called me back. She emailed me their commentary guidelines
and told me to write something new and separate from the blog completely
since the blog entries are interconnected and therefore won't work as independent commentaries. If they accept this new
essay it might be on ATC sometime during the next six months or so. Or
not. Often, I guess, they'll pay for a piece they don't end up running
at all. 11:22:52 AM | I have no illusions of anything coming of this -- there are so many variables -- but it will be an interesting challenge to put something together for their consideration. I'll have to fight off my insecurity to do it, which is a good challenge in itself. We'll see what comes of it. Towards the end of our rushed conversation, she asked me a very peculiar question. She wondered why I had S's name on our voicemail still when clearly he's not here to answer the phone. She said a while ago she worked with a wife of a soldier who was serving in Kuwait who also had her husband's name on her voicemail, and she found it odd that we'd both kept our husbands' names on our outgoing messages. I thought her question was odd. Why would I take it off? When our friends, some his, some mine, call here wouldn't they wonder what happened to him? Would they think we'd divorced? And how would S feel if he called his house and found only my name on the voicemail? It never crossed my mind to take his name off of our message. Her question makes me think there is not a chance in hell any of my "commentaries" will get on the air. But I guess it's worth a shot. 
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