Smoke Part ll- Thursday November 24, 2022

The essay "Smoke" by Catherine Young is reaction to and and experience of the wildfire ash that began to cover our Midwestern skies in the fall of 2020 against the background of having grown up in the in the smoke of the largest coal mining valley in the world.

Mandy Herrick pt.1

Yes, you read that right, this is a two-parter! Mandy was one of my first guests on a show I used to host called Conversations. I had Mandy on the show to talk about her life as a dancer and the journey she has taken from in-the-box dancing to movement-as-art dancing....

Natural Wonders #44

But It’s Already Done I'm reading again from My Double Life; Memoirs of a Naturalist. Fran Hamerstrom tells a story that reveals the love and respect Aldo Leopold’s students had for him. They used the dark of night to pull off a youthful student stunt that would...