There are lots of colloquial phrases to explain away the cacophony of a thunderstorm: The potato wagons are rolling, The tater wagon’s going over the bridge, The potato wagon broke down, and God is dumping out potatoes and washing them off. In...
A Virginia listener says that often when she’d leave the house, her grandfather would tell her Remember you belong to the land of the blue hen’s chicken. What in the world did that mean? The feisty blue hen is the state bird of Delaware. This is...
After our conversation about artist Alan Nakagawa’s project featuring haiku about social distancing, listeners share some poetry of their own. This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Social Distancing and Pandemic Haiku” You’re listening...