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.

A smudgy PDF transcript of today’s address is available.

Radio address for February 7, 2010. Some things are hidden from your senses until you say “yes.”

Mention is made of the Aztec game ullamaliztli.

Radio address for January 30, 2010, in which…we resume! How far apart we are when we start; how good it really is to come on board.

Radio address for March 2, 2009, in which 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. The poem is The Lake Isle of Innisfree by Yeats. Sweet sounds from common containers.