PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay

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My parents, Randy and Vicki, were high school sweethearts in the 1960s, but they broke up when my mom went off to college. Twenty years later their...

  • Added: Jul 21, 2020
  • Length: 03:48
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When 16 year-old Max Rakus set off to Germany right after his sophomore year of high school ended, he had no idea that the trip would change him fo...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 01:39
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Sam hails from Bosnia, but she’s lived in the US for the last 6 years. Sometimes she finds that her two cultures have opposing values. Add to that ...

  • Added: Dec 16, 2015
  • Length: 02:58
Caption: Maryama Abdi, Credit: Molly Haley
When Maryama Abdi came with her family to this country from Somalia, she left behind someone very dear to her.

  • Added: Dec 11, 2013
  • Length: 01:49
Caption: Suzette Jordan, Credit: Sandip Roy
Recently the Park Street rape victim did something almost unthinkable in India. She revealed her identity.

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  • Added: Jul 30, 2013
  • Length: 04:30
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Nathan Bergstedt is a writer from Grand Rapids. He is the Art and Education Editor for the Grand Rapids Herald Review. He is also responsible for T...

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  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 02:55
  • Purchases: 1
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It's time to re-enter the temples of baseball.

  • Added: Apr 05, 2012
  • Length: 02:09
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Commentary on the recent series of videos being uploaded to YouTube in the wake of a round of gay teen suicides.

  • Added: Oct 11, 2010
  • Length: 03:15
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My father's nearing death reminds me that death is omnipresent, the defining dance of life.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
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Mothering takes many forms, many guises

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 05:45
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
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Insurance, by its nature, is meant to support sickness and disaster, NOT health.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 04:54
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Unlike my dating experiences, my mate and partner entered my life quietly, entering a stream, a sea of love, that had always been there.

  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:15
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Looking at seed catalogues in the spring is like pornography for a garden - tantalizing and full of hope

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  • Added: Mar 02, 2010
  • Length: 05:20
  • Purchases: 1
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How would I treat my friends and family if I knew they were a child of light?

  • Added: Dec 23, 2009
  • Length: 04:23
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Expectation breeds disappointment - how to balance with expectancy

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:06
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Mystics live quietly, and for the most part unnoticed, in their community.

  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:34
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Visiting 500- and 1,000-year-old oak trees in Britain

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  • Added: Oct 06, 2009
  • Length: 05:31
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Solo journey on Vermont's Long Trail

  • Added: Jul 21, 2009
  • Length: 05:40
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Answering a call from the cosmos.

  • Added: Apr 10, 2009
  • Length: 05:57
Caption: Navigating Life with Science & Soul
Praise for farmers markets, for growing food as well as community.

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 04:00
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Striving for healing

  • Added: Apr 09, 2009
  • Length: 07:06
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
Caption: Navigating Life with Science and Soul
Kids as a borrowed asset

  • Added: Apr 07, 2009
  • Length: 03:44