Radio address for February 17, 2010, guest-starring my Smith-Corona Super Sterling (not, as it might sound, a gun, but a typewriter). The excerpt at the end is from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Book I, ch. XV.

Some things are hidden from your senses until you say “yes.”

How far apart we are when we start; how good it really is to come on board!

Hammer-swinging and lumber-fumbling are happily put on hold due to fresh snow. I form a new exclusive association based on a silly battle cry. Notion-planting is examined, and ending notes are struck on a bell, the moon, and a star.

Radio address for Feb 11, 2009. Some kinds of honey are a little too authentic, even for me.

An impression of January that is fine, lasting, and hard to convey; some poetry; and a small dose of tired but devoted thought.

In which ever-rarer and older Christmas songs are sampled like fine cheeses.

Radio address for Thanksgiving Day, 2008. The bulk of today’s address comes from Charles Laughton – a part of a 1960s recording that MPR broadcasts every year on Thanksgiving.

Radio address for November 20, 2008, which I saved out of the wastebasket and the cutting floor.

Radio address for November 12, 2008, involving Thermoclines, the Odd Days, and working in the dirt and the dark.