All Pieces for Susan J. Cook
The widespread permission in this country to be mean, to arm oneself to be as mean as possible is deeply alarming. The beginning of this permissio...
- Added: Jul 19, 2016
- Length: 07:01
A musical tribute to "My Funny I.T. Guy" . Blackberry phones - like former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had- used to be considered difficult...
- Added: Jul 08, 2016
- Length: 02:08
Speaking out about unjust events and atrocities that others passively accept segregates the outspoken, often. In their own time, they are often ...
- Added: Jul 04, 2016
- Length: 04:34
The real meaning of the Buddhist concept of karma is murky, but the Republican Presidential campaign has become an explanatory sponge for it- fully...
- Added: Jun 29, 2016
- Length: 04:49
I watched the next-to-last Prairie Home Companion live broadcast on my laptop since the show and the 1 and ½ hour encore were live streamed on You-...
- Added: Jun 27, 2016
- Length: 05:09
The lessons of D.L. Rosenhan's study of imposters pretending to have psychiatric illness on psychiatric units have not been lost on the world of me...
- Added: Jun 22, 2016
- Length: 07:32
Maine Public Broadcasting Network has made the perplexing decision to segregate music and poetry to a separate pay-to-hear HD radio service called ...
- Added: Jun 04, 2016
- Length: 07:16
We live in extremely violent times. Words can provoke aggression, insult and personal harm very quickly. Politicians spend much time trying to r...
- Added: May 30, 2016
- Length: 04:26
History is written by the Big and the Small. "The Vietnam War" documentary has reminded us that. The Moving Wall, a half scale version of the smoot...
- Added: May 27, 2016
- Length: 07:06
I hope you’re in the mood for some numbers. Or at least I hope you’re not in the mood for a poem. In Maine, the daily poem we all could feast on fo...
- Added: May 24, 2016
- Length: 07:35
In a Presidential primary that taxes our belief that the purpose of government is to benefit our lives, I remember legislation that Hillary Clinton...
- Added: May 13, 2016
- Length: 03:14
Human Growth and Development textbooks may be the ‘go to’ reference to explain ‘what the hell is going on’ as the new Republican opponent appar...
- Added: May 04, 2016
- Length: 04:52
Back in 2005, Dana Connors, Maine State Chamber of Commerce president said, "This is not the time or place to expand Maine care coverage to more u...
- Added: Apr 24, 2016
- Length: 07:02
In my state, this week, leaping off the lower right hand corner of the Front Page of the state’s largest newspaper was this “Educator who won one...
- Added: Apr 09, 2016
- Length: 05:42
From the Department of Poetic Justice, here at The River Is Wide , we offer an original composition, titled 'LIMBO'. There is such confusion and f...
- Added: Apr 02, 2016
- Length: 03:25
Elected officials or politicians aspiring to be elected officials say things that would register on our Hackle o’ meters and our Politically Unfit...
- Added: Mar 19, 2016
- Length: 03:19
Seventy thousand Google responses to ''Republicans Refuse'' or 37000 responses to ''Democrats Refuse'' say Donald Trump is not the first to bring ...
- Added: Mar 15, 2016
- Length: 04:04
The River Is Wide today offers a musical tribute to the 2016 Republican primaries to the tune of "Tonight" from the Broadway musical "West Side Sto...
- Added: Mar 09, 2016
- Length: 01:22
I was reading the New York Times article about the last batch of the 30000 emails released that Hillary Clinton received on her private server- wh...
- Added: Mar 04, 2016
- Length: 05:17
Today's Sixty Second Moral Inquiry asks 'Since Apple claims they refuse the order to open the San Bernadino murderer's I-phone to respect the ...
- Added: Feb 25, 2016
- Length: 01:14
