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Saturday Radio Diary

  • Todd McMillen was 22 years old with a degree in graphic design and working for Witmark Catalog store in Grand Rapids. “I was on a photo shoot,” he says,…
  • Kathryn Holl was teaching school in New York when her father became ill with a brain hemorrhage. “For six weeks the surgeon kept wanting to do more,” she…
  • “The accounting stereotype is someone without a whole lot of personality,” Chris Cornell says, “but I love the people.” Chris also loves math and…
  • The days after Christmas were always difficult for me as a child. Not because Christmas was over but because my mother was depressed that Christmas was…
  • “I’ve been an animal person from Day One,” Beth Clute says. “I grew up outside the city and dogs were my friends. I’m horribly allergic to cats, doesn’t…
  • For several years now, I’ve been trying to simplify Christmas in our family—without much success. I would especially like to reduce gift-giving to a…
  • This past year has been a hard one for me, with the loss of three cats in nine months. When the third one died, I was in despair—not only about cats but…
  • When I was growing up, our family went to visit Grampa Anderson every Sunday afternoon. He lived alone in a fusty old house on the other side of town and…
  • On a bright fall day, my husband and I are canoeing the Betsie River. Our favorite stretch is the flooded area above the Grass Lake dam which was created…
  • Elon Cameron studied photography, printmaking and bookbinding at the Art Institute of Chicago but wasn’t sure that was her life work. “I had a longing for…