After recording this week’s show, I was a daughter who missed her mother a little more than usual.

In talking with Brenda & Sara Stephens for this (and last) week’s show, I was reminded of something hard to quantify – the shorthand between mothers and daughters in their humor and in every way of how they talk to and about each other.

The Stephenses are funny. They have tremendous humor about everything from who has “good hair” to hot sauce in Hillary Clinton’s bag. Doing a sound check for the show before we began recording, Sara put her headphones on and began speaking … “Hello?” she said, then quickly launching into Adele’s smash hit song. (Sara’s got a voice, by the way) Then Brenda responds by singing “Is it me you’re looking for?” (Lionel Ritchie).

And this is BEFORE we began the show.  When we got going “on the record” we talked about race, about guns and about a wonderful play the mother/daughter dynamic duo are doing again later this year. It’s about Hillsborough native Elizabeth Keckley, seamstress to Mary Todd Lincoln. They both play Keckley at different stages of her life.

Meet us at the Watercooler at 6:00 pm on Saturday. I promise not to sing.