Saturday Radio Diary

On a sunny river bank, a deer is sleeping—but when our canoe glides past, she leaps up and bounds into the woods. We pose no threat to the deer, but she…

As a child, Carrie Leaureax overheard her grandparents speak the language of her Anishinaabe (Native American) culture. “Anishinaabemowin was forbidden at…

We have an ancient Catalpa tree in our back yard which likely predates our old house and certainly predates the Norway Spruces with whom it shares space.…

“I had a deep interest in history from Day One,” Fel Brunett says. “I was born in the house my great-grandfather built in 1881.” Fel still lives in that…

Sitting in the bow of the canoe, I pick up the old wooden paddle. For the first few strokes, I have to concentrate—plunge, pull, lift, twist—but soon the…

Homer asked if I wanted to go to Stonehenge. “We’ll have to hitch-hike,” he said so we took the London tube as far West as we could and stood in the rain…

“I got my first pair of glasses at age ten,” Nathan Baas recalls. “I really liked my optometrist and he said, think about this for a career. So he planted…

Fresh out of college, I took a job teaching eighth grade English. One of my classes was a group of students who were struggling, academically and…

When Mr. Vandenberg announced himself as the substitute teacher in our tenth grade English class, we all nodded. We knew what to do with substitute…

Josh Baldwin was studying accounting in college and wondering about a career when he started dating a gymnast. “I was taking her to physical therapy all…