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More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?
Bought by KUCR 88.3 fm Riverside, Calif., Spokane Public Radio, and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: May 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
- Purchases: 3
More and more women are breaking up with the expectation that you need a partner to parent. What’s it like raising kids as a single mother by choice?
- Added: May 07, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Assumptions about narcissism, loneliness and selfishness in only children are largely that: assumptions. But there are experiences unique to being ...
- Added: Apr 08, 2024
- Length: 58:23
Nearing 70, I’ve kept a large amount unsaid about my family. I felt it was time to let this out once and for all. There is much more to my story, b...
- Added: Jul 10, 2022
- Length: 23:11
Cherie inherits a stack of 33 letters, written by her grandfather, who died during the Korean War, and who Cherie’s family never talked about. Befo...
- Added: Sep 24, 2021
- Length: 19:47
What story will we tell when we look back on this pandemic year?
On the one-year anniversary of the pandemic (and Shelter in Place, a pandemic-bor...
Bought by RadioFreePalmer and RadioStPete Florida
- Added: Mar 19, 2021
- Length: 25:34
- Purchases: 2
What a decade-long fight taught Laura about relationships, laughter, and the grace we need to keep giving each other.
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 15:32
On her kids' last day of school, Laura draws from Susan Wise Bauer's research, writing, and experience on how we can rethink the way we approach ou...
- Added: May 27, 2020
- Length: 22:02
A collection of stories about things that have been passed down from those who came before.
- Added: Jan 23, 2020
- Length: 57:54
Smash society and you create craven people. Craven, from the early English word meaning crushed, defeated, overwhelmed.
- Added: Jul 03, 2018
- Length: 03:30
When Thanksgiving arrived in 2008, Robert found himself struggling with a tangled mess of emotions. The economic crisis in the U.S., big changes at...
- Added: Dec 05, 2015
- Length: 31:20
A story about the transformative power of loss. How one tiny life can become so large, that you begin to see it everywhere and in everything that y...
Bought by XRAY.fm
- Added: Jul 31, 2015
- Length: 20:02
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Jan 27, 2015
- Length: 10:03
- Purchases: 1
From: Stories from Deep in the Heart, a project of Texas Folklife
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
Series: Stories from Deep in the Vault: Summer Institute Edition
A mother & daughter recollect moving to Austin from Vietnam.
This story was produced by Ana Kolendo, Linda O’Neal, and Lindsey Shirack during the ...
Bought by PRX Remix
- Added: Oct 29, 2014
- Length: 05:46
- Purchases: 1
How do we balance raising our kids, retaining our careers, and at the same time find time for ourselves and our families?
- Added: Oct 14, 2013
- Length: 04:04
Ryan Vine is a Duluth poet. He is a Professor of English at the College of St. Scholastica. And Ryan Vine has been widely published including in su...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 28, 2013
- Length: 01:41
- Purchases: 1
Dan Sinykin is a writer and frequent contributor of essays and book reviews to Northern Community Radio. I this essay Sinykin presents a contemplat...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Feb 04, 2013
- Length: 07:59
- Purchases: 1
Michael Goldberg shares his advice on trying new things. In his essay, Goldberg sets realistic goals for himself. All the while Goldberg is reflect...
- Added: Jan 24, 2013
- Length: 03:10
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio and KHSU
- Added: Jan 07, 2013
- Length: 05:52
- Purchases: 2
Aaron J. Brown is an author and community college instructor from the Iron Range. He writes MinnesotaBrown.com and hosts Northern Community Radio's...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 19, 2012
- Length: 03:13
- Purchases: 1
For years I've been obsessed with death, asking people about living, dying, killing (www.livediekill.org) but really getting into the dying. For ev...
- Added: Dec 12, 2012
- Length: 04:42
Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Dec 11, 2012
- Length: 04:10
- Purchases: 1
Anne Dunn is an Ojibwe storyteller and crone, which she describes as an elder wisdom keeper, holy hag, earth mother, and sky woman.
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Nov 13, 2012
- Length: 03:20
- Purchases: 1
- Added: Oct 28, 2012
- Length: 03:03
Erika Kooda is a senior at Grand Rapids High School. During the school year Erika Kooda will be checking in with essays reflecting on her senior ye...
Bought by KKWE Niijii Radio
- Added: Oct 23, 2012
- Length: 03:51
- Purchases: 1
