PRX - Pieces for Format: First-Person Essay
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Lee Mier is a student manager of the Minneapolis Edison girls basketball team. It was exciting to get to the championship game last year.
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
At Minneapolis Edison High School, the football coach places a lot of defensive responsibility on the linebackers. And that suits student Jesse Cla...
- Added: Feb 12, 2011
- Length: 01:00
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 05:17
- Purchases: 2
Members of the Youth Media Project’s Global Broadcasting Team host this broadcast to share stories from their recent trip to cover the 2009 Parliam...
Bought by KRZA
- Added: Feb 09, 2011
- Length: 28:46
- Purchases: 1
In death is the possibility of harvest - making life from the fruits of the passing season.
- Added: Feb 03, 2011
- Length: 05:25
Celebrating the birthday of my 70 year old friend Louise, who is in full bloom.
- Added: Jan 21, 2011
- Length: 05:41
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.
- Added: Jan 18, 2011
- Length: 05:02
- Purchases: 2
Justine Teba of Pojoaque Valley High School was a participant in Youth Media Project's 2010 Summer Intensive. In this reflective piece, Justine sh...
- Added: Jan 07, 2011
- Length: 02:00
I've spent much of my life ruled by the long-armed reach of the clock. Now, focusing on the present moment, I'm learning to live outside time.
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:18
At six years old, in my family's barren living room, Santa furnished our hearts with love.
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:48
Living in Scotland, where the mid-winter sun barely crests the horizon, a tiny oak seedling unfurled its leaves on solstice morning.
- Added: Jan 05, 2011
- Length: 05:21
If I viewed my life as an experiment, a Petri dish of experience, what would I devote myself to?
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 05:24
Imagine giving thanks for every aspect of Creation - how long would that take?
- Added: Nov 23, 2010
- Length: 05:52
In a used bookstore, I recognize that I view beloved books as family, as paper-bound kin
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:31
The mind is a vicious master, searching for absolute certainty, which in truth is an illusion.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:15
Like the ancient Celts, Halloween is a time for me to experiment with new forms and ways of being.
Bought by KUT
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:12
- Purchases: 1
A pair of owls hooting in the dawn are harbingers of death and awakening.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:07
A friend writing her autobiography realizes her life is more fiction than fact.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:38
Autumn equinox is a fleeting moment of balance, in a seasonal current that moves at breakneck speed.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:22
How often do I unwittingly add to the debris that already challenges the flow of my life?
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:02
I struggle to teach my boys to be cautious around strangers, and trust the world.
- Added: Oct 29, 2010
- Length: 05:27
Laghunasadh, the beginning of the harvest, is a time to assess the "crops" I have planted this year.
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:36
Parents do not answer want ads in the classifieds, but their unpaid, unheralded job has some of the greatest rewards.
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 04:34
John, with his Cockney accent and rough humor, is a camouflaged guerilla healer.
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:14
Jimmy, a local Scottish man who became a regular visitor in the Findhorn garden, taught me most about communication.
Bought by KISU
- Added: Aug 18, 2010
- Length: 05:27
- Purchases: 1
