What's important, he says, is that his children are comfortable with being adopted and that they know the truth about it -- sad though it may be. He co-anchored PBSs Millennium 2000 coverage in concert with the BBC, and has co-hosted the televised Columbia-DuPont Awards. We saw smiling middle-aged women in white smocks holding babies, cooing, singing, and hefting them in their arms. At the age of 50, NPR has a renewed sense of purpose: to appeal to and sometimes challenge an audience that is more diverse in all ways, and help reach across some of those divides. Simon says it's best not to invest too much of one's identity in ethnicity. And finally, pink socks that had been tucked beneath red socks: as tiny and dear as a kitten's paws. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. Simon has been with NPR for over four decades, beginning in 1977 as Chicago bureau chief. He has hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Edition since its inception in 1985, excepting a period in 1992 and 1993 when Alex Chadwick hosted the show. Today, the initials NPR mean something special to tens of millions of Americans for whom we provide not only the news, music and entertainment, but a life's companion. He has hosted many television series, including PBSs State of Mind, Voices of Vision, Need to Know and Backstage With The Paterson Project won a national Emmy, as did his two-hour special from the Rio earth summit meeting. He is married to Caroline Richard Simon, and their daughters are Elise and Paulina. Since 1985, I've had the blessing to get together with you most every Saturday, for what I've grown to see as a weekly road trip through hearts and minds, and, expressions of joy. We saw Elise. For one reason or another, the traditional result was not achieved. There are all kinds of wizardly things that can be done in laboratories these days; most of us had tried one or two. "Get something to eat.". Flyers defenseman boycotts Pride night, cites religion. And her beauty is breathtaking. And he was around for a lot. Simon is a native of Chicago and the son of comedian Ernie Simon and Patricia Lyons Simon. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. Simon is a native of Chicago and the son of comedian Ernie Simon and Patricia Lyons Simon. Today, the initials NPR mean something special to tens of millions of Americans for whom we provide not only the news, music and entertainment, but a life's companion. Recently, he was awarded the Studs Terkel Award. He also hosts public television specials and does stories for CBS Sunday Morning. This book will change lives, restore hopes to the brokenhearted, and remind the rest of us what is truly important." First the puffy quilted pink coat came off. We had endured three days of what we had come to call "adopto-tourism" together ("You will now visit the Pearl Museum and Gift Shop! I mean that it is, as the dictionary says, "a surprising and welcome event that is not explicable by natural or scientific laws and is therefore considered to be the work of divine agency.". You know, you hear stories. We sure need them.". These resources can help, How Rutgers' Mawot Mag has grown into elite defensive player, NJ Wrestling Top 20 with big rivalry matches on the schedule, Rutgers football offseason tracker: Recruiting, coaching, transfer news & analysis, Kids with physical disabilities struggle with access to sports, Last call for liquor licenses? We had endured three days of what we had come to call "adopto-tourism" together ("You will now visit the Pearl Museum and Gift Shop! Raindrops rattled the roof of our small bus, seeped through the windows, and pitted the windshield with great wet gobs. Windy City, Simon's second novel, is a political comedy set in the Chicago City Council. What does this mean? That said, Simon says he wants to help potential parents to see the natural beauty in adoption. Why would you do that? He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. They took us down a flight and into a room. January 14, 2023 Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen wants Congress to raise the federal debt limit fast to avoid a default. He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. Caroline Richard Simon holds Elise Simon, 11 months old, on the day her adoption was approved by Chinese officials in Nanchang. I began reporting for NPR from Chicago in the late 1970s, about crimes, corruption, blizzards, mob hits and political ferment. He has hosted the Saturday edition of Weekend Edition since its inception in 1985, excepting a period in 1992 and 1993 when Alex Chadwick hosted the show. NPR's Scott Simon talks with White, the longtime Illinois secretary of state who is retiring at the age of 88. I've interviewed all three astronauts who flew on the first mission to the moon, and profiled three people who've been made saints, including Mother Teresa. ''Unlike so many people, men especially, Scott sees that whimsy is a necessary part of life. January 7, 2023 In the film, "The Pale Blue Eye," a detective investigates a series of murders linked to his own past alongside a young Edgar Allan Poe. Grinning bureaucrats received us and showed us to a staircase. Jokes are sometimes the only sensible answer to some of the astoundingly impertinent questions people can ask, right in your children's faces. Simon has won every major award in broadcasting, including the Peabody, the Emmy, the Columbia-DuPont, the Ohio State Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the Sidney Hillman Award. "The Paterson Project" won a national Emmy, as did his two-hour special from the Rio Earth Summit meeting. A month before, this moment couldn't have happened fast enough. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. ), ''I once heard Scott interviewing a steelworker, and he said, 'If you could make pink plastic flamingos and earn as much money as you do making steel, would you make pink plastic flamingos?' He is the host of Weekend Edition Saturday and is one of the hosts of NPR's morning news podcast Up First. "We'd both been in places where there are a lot of children who'd been abandoned," he tells NPR's Steve Inskeep. On the November 15, 2014, episode of Weekend Edition Saturday, Simon interviewed Bill Cosby and his wife Camille about a 62-piece art collection they had loaned to the National Museum of African Art. Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, an essay about the joys of adoption, was published in August 2010. His book, and Jackie Robinson and the Integration of Baseball, was Barnes and Noble's Sports Book of the Year. His novel, Pretty Birds, the story of two teenage girls in Sarajevo during the siege, received rave reviews, Scott Turow calling it, the most auspicious fiction debut by a journalist of note since Tom Wolfes. She grew up in San Francisco in a household of European tradition. I had a glass of wine, my wife had a beer, and we toasted our daughter. Part of a collage of images of Scott Simon reporting for NPR News from Cuba, San Salvador and Iraq. ''That's exactly the reaction I want from my life's companion. He has reported from all fifty states, five continents, and ten wars, from El Salvador to Sarajevo to Afghanistan and Iraq. His hobbies are books, theater, ballet, British comedy, Mexican cooking, and "bleeding for the Chicago Cubs." Each layer smelled of coal smoke and pee. Please stay tuned. I was hooked; and stayed on to hear the effervescence of Susan Stamberg on All Things Considered, the rock-steadiness of Bob Edwards and the sharp insights of Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, at a time when the voices of women in the news business were scarce. ". Simon is a native of Chicago and the son of comedian Ernie Simon and Patricia Lyons Simon. "I would like to open that door for people," he says. I have been with the place long enough to understand why all those great talents sometimes grimace to be told, "I've listened to you since I was in the backseat of my parents' car.". As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. [19], Simon has won Peabody and Emmy awards, and received many honorary degrees. '', At NPR's offices in Washington, Mr. Simon, 48, is known for his dapper clothes and for broadcasting in suits with pocket handkerchiefs to match his (sometimes red) socks. "A happy day," Julie added, "but also sad," and then we just listened to the ping of raindrops. In March 2015, he published a memoir about her titled Unforgettable: A Son, a Mother, and the Lessons of a Lifetime. Our independent, nonprofit newsroom produces award-winning stories, podcasts and events. I don't remember what we ate. We told people that the look of surprise in her eyes was because she had just read our dossier and said, "I thought you said that I was going to first-rate people!". I was hooked; and stayed on to hear the effervescence of Susan Stamberg on All Things Considered, the rock-steadiness of Bob Edwards and the sharp insights of Linda Wertheimer, Nina Totenberg and Cokie Roberts, at a time when the voices of women in the news business were scarce. "We just looked at each other and said, 'Why are we doing this? And while Simon and Caroline are determined to expose their daughters to Chinese culture through history and travel, he says their ethnicity is still only a feature of their personality, not a defining trait. Featuring interviews with leaders and emerging voices, we look at the last 50 years of NPR, examine its historical weak spots and hear how change is being made in the present and decades ahead. He is married to Caroline Richard Simon, and their daughters are Elise and Paulina. His books have chronicled character and characters, in war and peace, sports and art, tragedy and comedy. Laurie Halse Anderson just called the book, "Amazing. Then, in April, Caroline Richard, 33, visited NPR to talk about a documentary film she was working on. At the age of 50, NPR has a renewed sense of purpose: to appeal to and sometimes challenge an audience that is more diverse in all ways, and help reach across some of those divides. As Mr. Simon arrived, he hit his head on the taxi door and walked into the party bleeding. [23][24][25][26] They consider themselves a Jewish family (Simon's father was Jewish and his mother was Irish Catholic). "The Paterson Project" won a national Emmy, as did his two-hour special from the Rio Earth Summit meeting. [8] His father died when Scott was 16,[9] and his mother later married former minor league baseball player Ralph G. Newman, an American Civil War scholar and author who ran the Abraham Lincoln Bookshop in Chicago.[10]. The officials had given her a name: Feng Jia-Mei. In his new book, Baby, We Were Meant for Each Other, Simon shares the journey -- from struggling to conceive, to deciding to adopt, to traveling halfway around the world -- that ended with him and his wife, Caroline, adopting two little girls from China. Her small cheeks burned so, I wondered if her tears would sizzle. NPR's Scott Simon talks with Kim Yutani, the festival's director of programming. We checked cameras and cell phones. His novel, Pretty Birds, the story of two teenage girls in Sarajevo during the siege, received rave reviews, with Scott Turow calling it, "the most auspicious fiction debut by a journalist of note since Tom Wolfe's. ''He always knows how to make an entrance,'' Ms. Lyden said. Donate it to WBFO instead. He also became familiar to viewers in Great Britain as host of the continuing BBC series, "Eyewitness," and a special on the White House press corps. 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