The AAUGH Blog Podcast episode 03: Franklin’s real life mother – The AAUGH Blog

The new episode of the podcast, an interview with Harriet Glickman (the woman whose suggestion caused Schulz to add Franklin to the Peanuts cast) is up at: The AAUGH Blog Podcast episode 03: Franklin’s real life mother 

(I apologize for those of you seeing two notices of this new episode, but the automated announcements of new episodes are not showing up in the Feedburner emails that some people get. I’m still working out the kinks in this whole system.)

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