Saturday Radio Diary

I lasted about six weeks after my cat died. Although I still miss her (and will always miss her), I needed another cat in my life. In my house, on the…

Tom Power started thinking about being a judge when he spent a summer as a volunteer court clerk. “I came to appreciate the efforts made to help people…

While I was in a doctor’s waiting room the other day, a tall man walked in—a handsome man with gray hair and a carefully-tended comb-over. My first…

“It’s about telling stories,” Gregg Smith says, describing his work as a partner in a communications and marketing firm. “We raise public awareness of an…

There’s an old coffee mug on my desk full of pencils. Long pencils with full erasers, waiting to be selected. Short pencils with used-up erasers, waiting…

I’ve had a Christmas Cactus in my east window for a long while which blossoms about once a year—never on Christmas. It started out as one of those little…

“Just today, a ninety-year-old woman brought in a little wicker rocker,” Bonnie Rickman says. “She had a photo of herself as a child standing by the…

Everywhere you look, people are loading big bags of sunflower seeds into their cars, signaling the season of bird feeding. In the past, I’ve enjoyed…

Years ago my husband received a gift T-shirt that said, “Thank a Teacher.” Since it was too large, he offered the T-shirt to me and I have used it as…

Cari Peterson fell in love with travel as a young girl. “My dad was a car dealer,” she says, “so he would win trips and our family got to go places.” Cari…