messages became subdued. But now
she is back to her old self."
Selecting which messages to put on
the CD was a time-consuming
process. There were hundreds to
choose from. "For some, the quality
wasn't very good, and some weren't as
funny as others," she says. "But the
ones I selected for the CD were the
cream of a several-year crop — or
rather the sour cream of the crop!"
Whenever she pushed the play but-
ton on her answering machine and
heard her mother's voice, Borkowsky
says, she knew what to expect. "Her
messages drove — and still drive —
me crazy," laughs Borkowsky, a Great
Neck, N.Y., native who grew up in a
home imbued with a strong Jewish
cultural identity.
"[When I was] growing up, my
mother was always overprotective, but
when I went away to college at
Northwestern, she got a lot worse.
During my freshman year, my room-
mates all got care packages of cookies
and candy from their mothers. I got a
carton of 12 rolls of Charmin. My
mom was afraid the toilet paper at the
dorm wouldn't be soft enough."

When Borkowsky graduated from
college and moved to New York City, her
mother's advice continued. "After I got a
job for an ad agency, my mom would
leave me slogan ideas on my answering
machine," Borkowski chuckles.
"I was working on something for
Weight Watchers' winter promotion,
and my mother told me to use her
idea: 'Join now and by Chanuka lose 3
inches off your rush!' Of course, that
never made it to the air."
Taking a break from work,
Borkowsky is busy getting ready for
her next CD. "It will have more mes-
sages from my mother and it's tem-
porarily called Volume 2: The Friends
and Family Plan," she says.
"What's for sure is that there are
enough messages from my mother to
fill several more CDs."

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