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Full-time Mom to Full-time Work
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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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
Life-Threatening Allergies
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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What does it take to raise a child with a severe food allergy?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:12
Marriage Equality
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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To what lengths have same sex couples had to go, in order to be lawfully married?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 03:48
Living Overseas as a Family
From: Homefront Chronicles
Series: Homefront Chronicles
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How difficult is it to pick up and move your family overseas for a year ?

  • Added: Sep 09, 2013
  • Length: 05:33
Teenage Diaries Revisited: Juan
From: Radio Diaries
Series: Teenage Diaries Revisited
Caption: Juan holds a photograph of himself from 16 years ago., Credit: David Gilkey/NPR
16 years ago, Juan reported on his life as a recent Mexican immigrant living in poverty in Texas. In his new diary, Juan takes us on a tour of the ...

Bought by WJCT


  • Added: Jul 03, 2013
  • Length: 29:09
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Robert Jevne : "Sometimes romance can be heated up on the stove in only a few minutes."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Robert Jevne is a new contributing writer to KAXE - he offers his thoughts radio as theater of the mind and on what being a part of a community rad...

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:09
  • Purchases: 1
Acoustic Stories : Mary Finch : "It's all in the details."
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Mary Finch is an essayist, Newspaper Columnist, and a poet living in Deer River, Minnesota.

Bought by KSRQ


  • Added: Feb 26, 2013
  • Length: 03:25
  • Purchases: 1
What Twilight Didn't Teach Me About Love
From: Philly Youth Radio
Series: At the Heart, From the Heart
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Many songs, books, and movies focus on love and romance, but what happens when they become one’s only source for learning? Philly Youth Radio’s Jay...

Bought by WAMC Northeast Public Radio, KSVR Studios: Skagit Valley Radio, and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 12, 2013
  • Length: 04:23
  • Purchases: 3
Acoustic Stories : Michael Goldberg - "Try New Things"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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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
Acoustic Stories: Aaron Brown - "Time, Pressure, and Positive Change on the Iron Range"
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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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
Acoustic Stories: Michael Goldberg - Be Kind, Because Time Isn't
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Acoustic Stories
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Michael Goldberg contributes "The Last Word," his weekly topical essay to Northern Community Radio's Between You and Me program on Saturdays.

  • Added: Dec 19, 2012
  • Length: 03:22
Culturology: "Elder To Crone" an essay by Anne Dunn
From: Northern Community Radio - KAXE & KBXE, Minnesota
Series: Culturology
Caption: Anne Dunn
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
War
From: Helena de Groot
Series: We're All Strangers
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Even at war there is order. Or is there?

  • Added: Oct 28, 2012
  • Length: 03:03
Really, I'm Trying.
From: Shizue Roche Adachi
Caption: family photograph
A sister tries to reacquaint herself with her older brother during a cross country road trip only to realize it might not be so simple a task.

Bought by WTIP


  • Added: Oct 10, 2012
  • Length: 05:37
  • Purchases: 1
Seeking Peace Around Death and Dying (Peace Talks Radio) [29:00]
From: Good Radio Shows, Inc.
Series: Peace Talks Radio: Weekly Half Hour Episodes
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Three hospice professionals explore ways for the dying and the survivors to find more peace around the death passage. This compelling hour also inc...

Bought by Radio Baha'i, WLGI


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 1
'What's Going On' With My Family?
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Photo by klmontgomery, Flickr
Taking his inspiration from Marvin Gaye's song "What's Going On," Ryan Lawless, SFCC student, explores family dynamics in the 21st century while re...

  • Added: May 04, 2012
  • Length: 05:53
The Girl Who Couldn't Laugh and the Way Back to Joy: A Breadcrumb Tale
From: Dave Stefan
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This is an adventure story about how I met a girl who couldn’t laugh, and my quest to get my laugh back, which I lost somewhere under the pile of l...

  • Added: Nov 27, 2011
  • Length: 21:14
Facing Foster Care
From: Alaska Teen Media Institute
Caption: PRX default Piece image
We all have different stories to tell.

Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio and Radijojo World Children's Radio Network


  • Added: Sep 26, 2011
  • Length: 08:52
  • Purchases: 2
Tales from the South 023
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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This week's stories are about changes that can happen in moments, years, or even lifetimes. Anne Perry is pulled into a bloody predicament, Rod Lor...

Bought by PRX Remix, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 22, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 009
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Humility and gratitude: Arthur Paul Bowen watches as his uncle must let his aunt go, Joanna Seibert travels to the other side of the world to give ...

  • Added: Jul 18, 2011
  • Length: 28:30
Tales from the South 031: The Greatest Generation I
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South 2011 Spring Season
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Go back to 1936 with Shervena Grubbs, her twin sister, and their daddy on a train to Little Rock, get in a car with Wetzel LaGrone in the 1940's, a...

Bought by KFOK-LPFM, KFOK-LPFM, and KUAF Public Radio


  • Added: Jul 05, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Tales from the South 004
From: Paula Morell
Series: Tales from the South: Fall 2010 Season
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Lisa Brandom, Rich Adams, and Lynn Ramage Shafer share about the transition to new perceptions: of God, of familiar places, and of humiliation. Sou...

  • Added: Apr 27, 2011
  • Length: 29:00
Theme Songs
From: ayme frye
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A man talking about how he has a theme song for people in his life. He recalls the qualities of the people and describes them with music.

  • Added: Mar 29, 2011
  • Length: 03:24
Green Army Hat
From: Littleglobe
Caption: Col. Villa
A student at United World College, Nelson Diaz Monterrosa, worked with Youth Media Project's Summer Intensive 2010 to produce this moving piece abo...

Bought by KZYX and PRX Remix


  • Added: Feb 09, 2011
  • Length: 05:17
  • Purchases: 2
Remembering Barbara Jean
From: Blunt Youth Radio Project
Caption: Pat (left) and Joshua Presby
If Pat could tell his late step-mother, Barbara Jean, one thing, it's that he probably should have listened to her advice.

Bought by YouthCast and PRX Remix


  • Added: Jan 18, 2011
  • Length: 05:02
  • Purchases: 2