Martha shares a favorite poem, “The Bagel,” by David Ignatow. Who wouldn’t like to feel “strangely happy with myself”? This and other gems can be found in Billy Collins’ book Poetry 180. This is part of a complete...
One of Kentucky’s finest, Wendell Berry, wrote this in his poem “The Real Work”: “It may be that when we no longer know what to do / we have come to our real work.” Indeed, a smooth life is often a boring life. This is part...
Goethe wasn’t all about the minerals. He’s also quoted as saying, “One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.” Goethe...
Yikes! Come to think of it, what if the hokey pokey IS what it’s all about? This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “Hokey Pokey” We talked recently about the childhood game of taking the lyrics to familiar songs and...
Martha reads a poem by former U.S. Poet Laureate Kay Ryan called “The Long Up.” This is part of a complete episode. Transcript of “The Long Up, A Poem” One of my favorite hikes here in beautiful Southern California is to a...
Our two most recently aired episodes were Going All-City last week and The College Slang Party the week before that. They’re reruns more than six months old — which means you’ve forgotten half of what’s in them, right? Give...