This financial crisis is real. The news of layoffs feels very close and very concrete. This weekend on Weekend America I’ll share a couple recordings of recent phone calls to my mom.

Let’s just say she’s not driving this forklift anymore.

UPDATE: Seems like it’s public now. The irony that this story is airing the week that Weekend America got the news that they are being cancelled is not lost on me. It continues to be a sad time in public radio.