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Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Parents

Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Parents

Written by: Mel Foster
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Every episode of Questions I Wish I’d Asked My Parents features a guest with several impressive accomplishments – and one nagging question. No matter the books published, the patients cured, or the corporate ladders climbed, once we have lost our parents we realize how many things we left unasked. Our host, Mel Foster, a veteran interviewer and owner of Your Video Memoir and his co-host, Dr. Jeffrey London, is a retired child psychiatrist. Together they probe the question each guest wishes he or she had asked. Aiming not necessarily for an answer, but instead for an acceptance of one’s self as a son or daughter with an unresolved connection to a beloved parent.

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Episodes
  • I Carried a Briefcase to Elementary School. Why?

    I Carried a Briefcase to Elementary School. Why?
    Feb 20 2026

    In Episode 2 of Questions I Wished I'd Asked My Parents, we meet Mark Kaminski, a doctor who patented a cure for a type of lymphoma. His parents came to the U.S. from Poland. And Polish was the only language spoken in their home. Then Mark entered kindergarten. With a briefcase. He might as well have had a sign on his back that read: "Kick me, I'm a nerd who doesn't speak English."
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    31 mins
  • I Can’t Imagine What My Dad Went Through

    I Can’t Imagine What My Dad Went Through
    Feb 6 2026

    In Episode 1 of Questions I Wished I’d Asked My Parents, we meet Joe Borri, an artist and an author. His father was a Detroit policeman – though Joe insists he could have been a comedian. Joe’s older brother died when Joe was 10 years old. His father, a devout Catholic until then, stopped attending church. And Joe would love to ask him: How did you get through that and hold the family together?
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    38 mins
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