Last Saturday Night: Flynn Theatre

Broken Relationship Dept: Born in February 1955. Left college after a year to travel out west. And - this was the point of his story - had a broken relationship with his dad that couldn't get fixed in time, according to Montreal Gazette. But if I thought Bodett was on the stage of the Flynn theatre in Burlington, Vt., to connect his life with mine last Saturday night, I could be forgiven. This was a performance for the Moth, a publicradio broadcast and podcast that is reviving the art of storytelling. A good storyteller makes everyone feel connected and he is better looking and more talented than me, but Tom Bodett's life story sounded a lot like mine. "I buried my dad last May. He was dead of course." Bodett is a humorist, a regular on National Public Radio's weekly news quiz show Wait Wait - Don't Tell Me!, so even a story about words not spoken between father and son, the way he tells it, begins with some laughs. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.