In today's episode:

Our Book tidbit is a recommendation: Margo's Got Money Troubles, by Rufi Thorpe.

Our Being Your Best tidbit is about letting people be who they are.

Our Bird tidbit is about the Barred Owl.

Our Big Bit is about bourbon, in a telephone interview with Jim's old friend Chip Ruble, Kentucky resident and bourbon aficionado.

In today's episode:

• Our Bird tidbit is about the Barn Swallow.
• Our Bonus B tidbit is about bracketology.
• Our Book tidbit is a recommendation for the book Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke.
• Our Big Bit is about following Duke's advice and thinking in bets.

In today's episode:

• Our Bonus B is a fun fact about Deb's name.
• Our Birding tidbit is about the Woodcock.
• Our Being Your Best tidbit is about articulating who you are.
• Our Big Bit is an interview with award-winning author (and wife) Nancy Werlin, who will tell us about the life of a writer.

Where Bits that Begin with B begins!

Today's tidbits: Why Broadcasting?, A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles, and mastering your circumstances.

Today's Big Bit: Why do People Bird?

The social (and anti-social) possibilities of birding.

References:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabine's_gull

• https://nhaudubon.org/lands/sanctuaries/pondicherry-wildlife-sanctuary/
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-backed_woodpecker
• (Woodman Pond Birds) https://ebird.org/hotspot/L227544
• (Snow Goose) https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Snow_Goose/id
• (Northern Lapwing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_lapwing
• Merlin app for bird identification, including auditory! https://merlin.allaboutbirds.org/
• Audubon Society https://www.audubon.org/

Thanks to Melrose Massachusetts Television!!

https://mmtv3.org/

Today's tidbits: the Northern Mockingbird, communication, and backgammon.

Today's big bit is a conversation with two-time National Book Award finalist Deborah Wiles.