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Well, I'll say one thing about the Gumption Track: it's well-marked. The roadies did not skimp on signage, even though it seems like they never a...
- Added: Apr 28, 2016
- Length: 10:17
Here's another little song for the kids: when you think about it, bees are just Nature's miniature flying alarum clocks ...
- Added: Apr 20, 2016
- Length: 01:53
There were two new faces down at Elmer's Cafe the other day. I walked in the door, saw this young couple sitting on the six and seven stools, talk...
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 08:13
Theophilus Papadopoulos had to write an essay for school. It was supposed to be about a famous philosopher, and it couldn't be about anybody he kn...
- Added: Apr 13, 2016
- Length: 05:19
Well, the rain never let up, from dawn till dusk ... although, in all fairness, I don't know if you could even call it a dawn, seeing as how nobody...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 05:15
Here's a little song about a snowman who rolled into town at the tail end of Winter ...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 01:54
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking down the Yonder Track on our way to Glory not too long ago. You know Glory – the legendary city where all...
- Added: Mar 30, 2016
- Length: 05:53
Sue Spender was on her way to school one morning when she found a penny lying heads-down on the sidewalk. She wondered how it got there. Could it...
- Added: Mar 10, 2016
- Length: 06:32
As far as I'm concerned, Gumption is the kind of place where the only reason to go there is to say you've been there ...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:22
Young Brian was always asking questions. He wanted to know how the world worked. He wanted to know why it worked. He wanted to know when it work...
- Added: Mar 02, 2016
- Length: 06:52
I caught up with my friend Stretch the other day. He was headed north out of town, along the Coastal Road. I said "hey, Stretch. Where are you g...
- Added: Feb 17, 2016
- Length: 08:55
Another song for the kids: Imagine if you could see yourself in a snowflake! ...
- Added: Feb 10, 2016
- Length: 01:22
My friend Vern Acular is a self-taught illuminato of the natural world. He rarely comes into town anymore. Instead, he's always out roaming the W...
- Added: Feb 05, 2016
- Length: 05:00
Jessica worried that someday, somebody might catch her using magic. That would be disastrous! They wouldn't understand that she only used her pow...
- Added: Jan 27, 2016
- Length: 04:42
I found my friend Vern Acular standing at the top of Down Hill with a very long stick in his hands. He looked like he was about to play piñata wit...
- Added: Jan 20, 2016
- Length: 04:47
Something's in the 'fridgerator, rotten eggs! ...
- Added: Jan 13, 2016
- Length: 01:12
My friend Bugsy Diptera and I were tramping around out near Wunsa Pond the other day ...
- Added: Jan 06, 2016
- Length: 05:42
My friend Miles Walker and I were hiking through the Great Empty Desert when we stomped unexpectedly on a sidewalk ...
- Added: Dec 11, 2015
- Length: 05:34
I didn't really expect a farewell party when I walked into Elmer's Cafe ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 04:55
Several short, unrelated poems are (loosely) tied together by a short song ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 01:32
My friend Rita Book recently started working on a new lexical engineering project. Most of her projects are designed for print media, but I heard ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 03:11
My friend Stretch likes to tell everybody he's living on borrowed time. I said "really? Whose time did you borrow?" ...
- Added: Dec 10, 2015
- Length: 02:58
My friend Archie Meade claims you have to know how to do calculus in order to catch a ball in mid-air ...
- Added: Dec 04, 2015
- Length: 02:54
The guy in charge of winter was up there kicking the clouds again - shaking loose as many snowflakes as he thought he could get away with ...
- Added: Dec 03, 2015
- Length: 02:49
Rose Bush had three pen pals: one black, one blue, and one red ...
- Added: Dec 02, 2015
- Length: 04:00
