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MA-143 Good Enough Mom
From: KVNF
Series: Mystics Almanac
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I've exchanged my Super Mom cloak for a Good Enough Mom sweatshirt.

  • Added: May 20, 2010
  • Length: 04:47
This Is Not The Story You Think It Is... A Season of Unlikely Happiness, by Laura Munson
From: KUFM - Montana Public Radio
Series: The Write Question
Caption: Laura Munson, Credit: Heidi Long
Laura Munson is the author of 14 unpublished novels and one memoir, which was published almost immediately after she wrote it. This is Not The Stor...

Bought by KWMR, WFIU, and Yellowstone Public Radio


  • Added: Apr 02, 2010
  • Length: 29:00
  • Purchases: 3
Power of Half
From: Philip Graitcer
Caption: Salwens at New House
It sounded like a goofy, crazy downsizing plan. The Salwen family downsized - moving from a 7-bedroom mansion into a smaller house and giving the p...

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio, Rendered, and New Hampshire Public Radio


  • Added: Feb 05, 2010
  • Length: 03:34
  • Purchases: 3
Fortissimo
From: Erin Calabria
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A renowned conductor with Parkinson's disease struggles to keep music in his life.

Bought by New Hampshire Public Radio and KUOW


  • Added: Jun 11, 2009
  • Length: 07:01
  • Purchases: 2
A Horse Named "Buckwheat"
From: Rogi Riverstone
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What do you do when they tell you your child is in a persistive vegetative state, tell you to put her in a nursing home and go on with your life? Y...

  • Added: Mar 05, 2009
  • Length: 04:30
Home from the Inside Out
From: Deborah Begel
Series: Calling America: Give Us Your Stories, Poems & Essays
Caption: Tina Huang, actress
Home Watch

  • Added: Nov 13, 2008
  • Length: 03:36
Cancer Survivors Encourage Newly Diagnosed
From: AARP Radio
Series: Prime Time Radio
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Cancer Survivors Encourage Newly Diagnosed and The Plot Against Pensions...this week on Prime Time Radio.

  • Added: Nov 06, 2008
  • Length: 59:45
This I Believe - Brighton Earley
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Los Angeles high school student Brighton Earley believes being flexible is a valuable trait in life.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Aug 05, 2008
  • Length: 03:26
  • Purchases: 2
This I Believe - Donald Rosenstein
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Watching his autistic son helped Dr. Donald Rosenstein learn to embrace the possibilities in life.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KZYX


  • Added: May 07, 2008
  • Length: 04:12
  • Purchases: 3
The Gefilte Fish Chronicles
From: Tina Antolini
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One matriarch tells the story of preparing the same elaborate feast for Passover that her family's been making for over 80 years.

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KRCB 104.9, and The Neighborhood


  • Added: Apr 22, 2008
  • Length: 04:58
  • Purchases: 5
This I Believe - Dan Tani
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Looking back at Earth from space, astronaut Dan Tani is optimistic about the future of the planet.

Bought by WEZU and WEZU


  • Added: Feb 29, 2008
  • Length: 03:53
  • Purchases: 2
The Education of a Young Dairy Farmer
From: Ed Janus
Series: Milk on Our Boots: The Terroir of Dairyland
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Cows helped form the moral character of a young woman farmer

Bought by KVMR


  • Added: Nov 26, 2007
  • Length: 10:39
  • Purchases: 1
Being Bicultural: Stories of Asian American Youth
From: WAMU
Caption: PRX default Piece image
A look at what being "bicultural" means.

Bought by WTJU, WRST-FM Oshkosh, Yellowstone Public Radio, KFAI Minneapolis, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: Nov 09, 2007
  • Length: 05:30
  • Purchases: 6
Penyo and Maria's Children's Home, Bulgaria
From: Katie Burningham
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Audio tour of a children's home in Bulgaria

  • Added: Oct 08, 2007
  • Length: 10:10
This I Believe - David Gessner
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Nature writer David Gessner believes you don't have to go to Everest or the Amazon to find wildness.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and KZSC


  • Added: Jul 23, 2007
  • Length: 03:27
  • Purchases: 4
From The Heart
From: Bill Slammon
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This is a story about dying well. It's my father's story.

  • Added: Jun 07, 2007
  • Length: 09:12
Doc Merrick
From: Viki Merrick
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a father-daughter coming of age story

Bought by KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, KZYX, New Hampshire Public Radio and more


  • Added: May 15, 2007
  • Length: 03:36
  • Purchases: 6
Creating an Old Fashioned Summer in a Fast-Paced World
From: Deb Krumholz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Author Mimi Doe talks about using summer as an opportunity to help our kids slow down the pace of their lives

  • Added: May 01, 2007
  • Length: 23:52
"Gratiot" by Adam Levin
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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His grandmother's refusal to accept his mother's conversion to Judaism. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 01:47
"Spaghetti Sauce" by Tabitha Watson
From: WBEZ
Series: Louder Than a Bomb 2007
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One young writer's lessons learning from a family member with a mental disability. This poet is a student at Oak Park-River Forest High School (IL).

  • Added: Mar 22, 2007
  • Length: 02:27
My Pink Easter Dress
From: Miles Eddy
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Storyteller Mary Van Pelt remembers shopping for a special dress, her fear of the big city, and receiving gentle guidance and love from her Grandmo...

Bought by KUFM - Montana Public Radio, Prairie Public, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA, and WYSO


  • Added: Feb 14, 2007
  • Length: 04:41
  • Purchases: 4
This I Believe - Susan Cosio
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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Chaplain Susan Cosio believes a daily walk gives her the opportunity to focus on her spiritual core.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, KJZZ, and KUOW


  • Added: Jan 31, 2007
  • Length: 03:31
  • Purchases: 4
Don't We All Deserve (and Need) a Sabbatical?
From: Deb Krumholz
Caption: PRX default Piece image
inspiring interview about sabbaticals and how everyone can and should take one

  • Added: Jan 07, 2007
  • Length: 27:24
This I Believe - Jamaica Ritcher
From: This I Believe
Series: This I Believe
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NPR listener Jamaica Ritcher finds belief in explaining to her daughter the death of a family pet.

Bought by WEZU, WEZU, and KJZZ


  • Added: Oct 06, 2006
  • Length: 03:57
  • Purchases: 3
This I Believe - Phyllis Allen
From: This I Believe
Caption: PRX default Piece image
Listener Phyllis Allen once defined her beliefs by social movements. Now, she finds them in herself.

  • Added: Jun 12, 2006
  • Length: 04:15