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By the time Christmas rolls around, I've lost the glow. I'm grouchier and meaner than the Grinch.

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Dec 16, 2006
  • Length: 03:59
  • Purchases: 1
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Moving forces you to take stock of what you have, what you want and what you need.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
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Of all the tender moments I have shared with my children, I think I?ll remember the dancing the most.

  • Added: Dec 05, 2006
  • Length: 03:06
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It isn't easy to pack up a life and move. But there are advantages. Moving gives you a chance to look at what you own and what owns you. Moving giv...

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
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Watching a family of Swallows who have nested under the eaves brings a comparison to the drama in the human nest

  • Added: Nov 29, 2006
  • Length: 03:22
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A commentary by Nanci Olesen about the change of seasons

Bought by WFUV


  • Added: Sep 22, 2006
  • Length: 02:39
  • Purchases: 1
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Nanci Olesen has to wear sunglasses to watch her son play baseball, so she doesn't give herself away

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WKSU


  • Added: Jun 02, 2006
  • Length: 02:40
  • Purchases: 2
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A stressful graduation party story from 1977

  • Added: May 31, 2006
  • Length: 03:31

  • Added: May 03, 2006
  • Length: 03:17
  • Purchases: 14
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Suddenly, shopping for underwear is a spectator sport.

  • Added: Jan 15, 2006
  • Length: 03:44
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Love doesn't always come with balloons and words that rhyme. True love usually comes to us just like the groceries, mixed with the necessities and ...

Bought by KPIK-LP, NPR Station Showcase with PRX, and WKNO


  • Added: Jan 04, 2006
  • Length: 04:59
  • Purchases: 3
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commentary from Nanci Olesen about Mary

Bought by Public Interactive


  • Added: Dec 21, 2005
  • Length: 02:33
  • Purchases: 1
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I was 20 years old and I felt as alone as anyone could be. I was, as Charles Dickens wrote of Ebenezer Scrooge, as solitary as an oyster.

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio


  • Added: Dec 16, 2005
  • Length: 03:19
  • Purchases: 1
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We're driven by the belief that we can create this one perfect day or season, and the warmth generated by it will carry us through the rest of the ...

Bought by KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, Georgia Public Broadcasting, New Hampshire Public Radio, and WBHM


  • Added: Dec 06, 2005
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 4
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When my children ask what I want for Christmas, I give the the standard list: perfume, slippers and things like that. But I have a secret list.

Bought by WEZU, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and KUFM - Montana Public Radio


  • Added: Dec 05, 2005
  • Length: 02:44
  • Purchases: 3
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A few minutes before midnight a little boy brings one of last year's gifts and places it under the tree. He wants to return it to Santa.

Bought by WRVO Public Media and WNIN


  • Added: Dec 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:35
  • Purchases: 2
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Often, what we think we see as an obstacle, isn't really there at all. It is just an illusion.

  • Added: Oct 03, 2005
  • Length: 03:06
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Essay by Cheryl-Anne Millsap. No matter what the calendar says, for some of us, the New Year begins in September.

  • Added: Aug 26, 2005
  • Length: 04:15
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Columnist Gail Collins says that women in colonial times had nearly as much freedom and even more power than they do today.

Bought by KZYX, Stan, KMUN, KDLG, and Maine Public Radio


  • Added: Jun 02, 2005
  • Length: 59:58
  • Purchases: 5
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Writer Cheryl-Anne Millsap reflects on the meaning of being "green."

Bought by KZUM


  • Added: Mar 11, 2005
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 1
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Rebecca, her many names and corresponding identities

Bought by PRX Remix, KVNF, Public Interactive, and KRZA


  • Added: Feb 23, 2005
  • Length: 03:10
  • Purchases: 4
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Seven journal entries chronicling loss

Bought by KISU, WYSO, WUAL, and WKSU


  • Added: Dec 21, 2004
  • Length: 28:32
  • Purchases: 4
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Could this be how we first become aware of otherness?

Bought by KGLT


  • Added: Oct 29, 2004
  • Length: 04:46
  • Purchases: 1
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A young mother weighs the costs of buying health insurance against the risks of living without it.

Bought by KXOT Public Radio, 90.1 WFYI Public Radio, WMPG, and WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass.


  • Added: Jun 11, 2004
  • Length: 02:19
  • Purchases: 4
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Every 100 days, Roberts saves the phone messages of her mom who passed away two years ago as a living memorial.

Bought by WHFR, Prairie Public, Room Tone Selects, WTJU, Prairie Public and more


  • Added: May 02, 2004
  • Length: 05:51
  • Purchases: 28