May 2006
Mother’s Day / Muttertag
Joey Horsley
05/13/2006
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This Sunday is Mother's Day in the U.S. as in Germany. From my desk in Hannover I can listen live via internet to my public radio station in Boston and keep up with local and national news. For the last several days the station (WBUR) has been conducting its annual Mothers' Day pledge drive, urging me to donate money to help finance its extensive news programming. As an added incentive the station will send a dozen beautiful roses to my mother or any other woman I wish to acknowledge on this special day. I ponder whether I should respond to this request—I do rely on ‘BUR’s in-depth…