August 21st, 2025

Dioramas is from the memoir Black Diamonds: A Childhood Colored by Coal by Catherine Young, published in 2023 by Torrey House Press. The memoir looks back on childhood in a Pennsylvania coal mining valley, and Dioramas tells of the strange underground exhibit, a coal...

August 19th, 2025

We are on Tern Island in the French Frigate Shoals of the Hawaiian Island western chain of atolls; reading Eye of the Albatross by Carl Safina. Understanding the feather moult patterns of albatrosses is essential for researchers to understand their lifetime...

For The Sun After Long Nights

A Conversation with Fatemeh Jamalpour. For The Sun After Long Nights by two acclaimed Iranian female journalists, depicts the oppression of ethnic minorities and particularly of women since the 2022 Women, Life, Freedom Movement. It was an honor to be given a glimpse...

August 14th, 2025

Ed Holahan is the host, Merten Petersen is the guest. They will spend the hour discussing everything Crochet. Merten is a polished practitioner. Ed wouldn't know a crochet hook from a corkscrew. It's an education!