—say the words -

“Trained up right,” a messenger arrives unexpectedly, lingering just long enough to stir up an enduring lesson.

f these walls could tell our stories -

Kentucky writer Barbara Chandler wanders through an old family homestead of her childhood and reflects on years gone by and the people gone with them in the hopes of passing those memories onto another generation.

– a wild razzee

The “replacement child” and the incompetent Uncle Will confound the social hopes of the mother who takes to bed with a sick headache—again.

Season 3 begins March 3 with stories from “Luck and Opportunity,” the fourth anthology from the Personal Story Publishing Project. Editor Randell Jones shares the introduction from the collection giving listeners a preview of stories to come. Episodes will be announced on Facebook @6minutestories. Upcoming Calls for Personal Stories are announced @personalstorypublishingproject and at RandellJones.com.

Becoming America -

250 years ago from March 5, 2020 occurred one of the most infamous and least understood events in American history. And, just before it, a murder hardly anyone remembers. A year after that 250th anniversary the story of the Boston Massacre takes on new meaning in the wake of a modern mob attack on the U.S. Capitol. This important story of our becoming America is worth revisiting..

a mother's angst abroad

As her teen son leaves on his gap year experience before college ("A Walk in the Park" by Kyle Paterson, June 26, 2019 podcast), writer Valerie Paterson shares her view of leaving her son abroad at the edge of the world for an outdoor encounter and reveals her own transformative experience of visiting Patagonia, Chile.

Getting to the destination is half the fun--and way more than half the trouble in a series of events laughable only in hindsight.

grateful to be alive

Surprised and trapped in their North Carolina mountain home by a harsh and threatening late-winter blizzard, a couple struggles to survive and to care for their horses, thankful for any good turn of fate to befall them throughout their ordeal.

Standing up for yourself takes courage at any age.

Gone to Patagonia