Radio address for June 6, 2011. Maybe if you’re denied a pile of money, you’re better able to think outside the box and focus on what matters. But who wants to be denied a pile of money. I ask you.

Music is Ah, Leave Me Not to Pine performed by the King’s Singers, and Awaiting Spring by Benji Flaming.

Radio address for February 21, 2011: some things not many people seem to know about Niagara Falls, about kings and fools.

You can download a collection of typed and handwritten notes for this episode. I read from these for the recording but they do not exactly match what I said.

The album art for this episode is based on a photo by Wouter (CC License). The music cues are all from the movie adaptation of Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. I initially thought that out of respect for the format, I ought to truncate the ending song, which is rather long, but I couldn’t bring myself to do it.

What if I am among those that winter separates unto Pluto rather than to Jupiter this year? The summons was to the clearing at midnight, and I had always dreaded it.

Music cues are Acoustic Sketch 8 by my friend Benji Flaming; O Come, O Come Emmanuel from Charles Dickens Christmas, Death and the Lady by Pentangle, Captain Captain by Crooked Still, and Soar Away performed by Chanticleer.

Radio address for December 8, 2010, a poem I wrote this last Sunday.

The music at the end is Meg’s Hair from the much-loved Little Women original soundtrack.

Radio address for December 1, 2010. It is extremely cold and snowy here now. These are just a few glimpses of surviving and micro-thriving in the middle of winter.

The music at the end is The Snail and the Rosebush from my friend Benji Flaming’s album Solo Banjo which you really should listen to. The other music cue is Sitting in the Stern of a Boat from the Lewis and Clark original soundtrack.