SMOKIN’ SCIENCE 0:00 / 0:00 Smokin' Science One day, my seventh grade physical sciences teacher announced mandatory participation in a science fair. Up to the day before the event, I hadn’t prepared. Hadn’t determined a research question. Hadn’t developed a hypothesis and definitely had not come to any conclusions. In my mind, the scientific method […]
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0:00 / 0:00 Caught in the Jaws of a Claw My exercise essay appeared in The Daily Progress today. See below: CAUGHT IN THE JAWS OF A CLAW Have you ever wanted to be someone you’re not? So, one day I was at the gym exercising on the calf-stretching machine. As you might
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THE SIXTY-FIVE DOLLAR QUESTION 0:00 / 0:00 The Sixty-Five Dollar Question This essay aired on this NPR-member station and appeared in The Washington Post. THE SIXTY-FIVE DOLLAR QUESTION The last time my folks visited, our whole family swapped tales around the dining table. Our topic? Marriage proposals: who proposed to whom and how. My husband, Bruce,
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MAKE A WISH A video has been making the rounds on Face Book. In it, a virtual Santa on a large screen greeted passengers in an airport lobby. As he scanned their tickets, he asked what they wanted for Christmas. People had differing reactions. The little kids stepped right up and boldly made requests. One
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JIMMY THE RECYCLER 0:00 / 0:00 Gifts from Dad Jimmy the Recycler My 87-year-old father is a yard sale addict. He drives around collecting stuff, then distributes it to family and friends. And, when my father believes you need something, he never takes “no” for an answer. Occasionally, he’ll discover a treasure, like the gilded
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SADDLE UP YOUR PIG Photo Courtesy of Donald Giannatti 0:00 / 0:00 Saddle Up Your Pig What will a mother do for love? To what lengths would she go to make her children happy? My sons expressed one great desire as we planned our summer trip to Montana. They wanted to go horseback riding in
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If you have time, please listen to my three minute essay “Biking Whitetop” which aired this morning on NPR-member station WVTF: Biking Whitetop BIKING WHITETOP I’m the one on the left. 0:00 / 0:00 Biking Whitetop I used to be adventurous. I used to be a risk taker. But, at some point, my everyday life took
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BENEDETTA’S BREAD Photo Courtesy of Charles Chen 0:00 / 0:00 Benedetta's Bread My grandmother, Benedetta Boccaccio, is about to turn 104 this January. For much of her life, she lived in a Cape Cod on White Street in Hartford, Connecticut. In her 100th year, my grandmother had to leave her little house. She took a
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If you have time, please listen to my 3 minute essay Locked in the Loo at the Louvre which just aired on NPR-member station, WVTF: PrumsBathroomAdventures LOCKED IN THE LOO AT THE LOUVRE Photo Courtesy of Calvin Craig 0:00 / 0:00 Locked in the Loo What kind of person travels across Europe seeing splendid sights, eating
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LAST BOY LEAVING 0:00 / 0:00 Last Boy Leaving I’ve been raising children for twenty-eight years and now my last boy is leaving. He’s going off to college. Every morning, since he was little, he’d walk out to the mailbox by the road and bring in the newspaper. As he’d come back
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