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Updated: Jul 26, 2024
Civil Liberties for Lifelong Learners
Commentaries, Sixty Second Moral Inquiries and Two and One Half Minute Conspiracy Theories along with a lyric or two for The Great American Wrongbook (and the Department of Poetic Justice and Reckoning) ! Life long education to answer the question : What is a civil liberty anyway? In 2011, at...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024
The Department of Poetic Justice (and Poetic Reckoning)
Back in 2013, my collection "Blue: American Sonnets" was entered in a contest sponsored by the Alice James Press. Some are presented here. The poems written in sonnet form come from the longing for justice and the emotional angst of seeing this country falter. I did not know Wanda Coleman or...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024
The River Is Wide
The River Is Wide is written by a political activist and psychologist. Citizen's Guides, the occasional Congressional Guide, sonnets when no other format seems appropriate, A Sixty Second Moral Inquiry from time to time, original poetry from our Department of Poetic Justice and brief essay-ish...
Updated: Jul 26, 2024
It's Not What You're Given. It's What You Do With What You Get
These days, from the intricacies unraveled through the secrets of the human genome to the moral entitlement of any number of religious sects, what you are given is grabbed onto like a brass ring. Turns out though, as the lyrics of a great Maine jazz singer remind us, it's not what you're given,...
Updated: Jul 24, 2024
michele ravera's favorites
Updated: Jul 23, 2024
1960s1970s Music
Updated: Jul 23, 2024
Old School
Updated: Jul 23, 2024
STONE Movie scores
Updated: Jul 23, 2024
Turntable for One
Updated: Jul 22, 2024
Sandra Beatty's Favorites
Updated: Jul 20, 2024
Regular Shows
Updated: Jul 18, 2024
'Wisdom'
From poetic turns of phrase to plain-spoken truths, there are little gems of wisdom in each one of these stories.
Updated: Jul 18, 2024
Legacy
Updated: Jul 18, 2024
'Griot'
StoryCorps' collection of African American stories from all across the country.
Updated: Jul 16, 2024
'Work'
We all spend 8 hours a day at it: hear stories from and about work, unusual jobs, and loving what you do.
Updated: Jul 16, 2024
Military Voices Initative
StoryCorps' Military Voices Initiative provides a platform for veterans, service members, and military families to share their stories. In doing so we honor their voices, amplify their experiences, and let them know that we—as a nation—are listening. Learn more at:...
Updated: Jul 16, 2024
Friendship
Updated: Jul 16, 2024
One Small Step
Updated: Jul 15, 2024
Elvis Presley - Memphis
Updated: Jul 15, 2024
Evergreen Episodes of Possibly
A curated list of episodes without language that could put the episode out of date. All episodes are written with a national audience in mind.
Updated: Jul 10, 2024
Women's Issues
Updated: Jul 04, 2024
'Witness'
Yes, they were there for that. They saw it, heard it, and in these pieces they tell you all about it.
Updated: Jul 04, 2024
'Romance'
You can't help falling in love right along with the people in these stories. Romantic in the truest sense of the word.
Updated: Jul 04, 2024
OutLoud
Updated: Jul 04, 2024
'Identity'
How do you identify? Stories dealing with the complicated reality that is identity.
Updated: Jun 27, 2024
The Indifference Diaries
Elie Weisel, the humanitarian Holocaust survivor, once said "The opposite of love is not hatred, it's indifference". Indifference brings out the worst in humanity sometimes. Sometimes we can't document the day-to-day sequence of events that culminate in harm. And sometimes we can.
