Howell Creek Radio

Download MP3 audio – 9:34, 9.25 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for March 23, 2013. Running to work in the morning with a heavy bag on your shoulder, and stopping by the train station.

Download MP3 audio – 8:50, 8.59 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Saturday, March 16, 2013. We all spread out a little bit more with the passing of time and the coming of extra daylight.

Download MP3 audio – 44:46, 20.99 MB Well, we really coloured outside our usual lines with this one! Trixie and I sat down by the fire to discuss our podcast and the survey results – the only time we’ve done so in five years of podcasting.

Download MP3 audio – 8:53, 8.63 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Saturday, Mar 2, 2013. I discuss the possibilities and limitations inherent in becoming, and trying to remain, a landed proprietor. What's it like to suddenly be the grown-up, welcoming guests into your home?

Download MP3 audio – 9:55, 9.58 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Feb 23, 2013. Winter gets repetitive; it is a prison, a cave, a cocoon.

Download MP3 audio – 5:22, 5.41 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Jan 5th, 2013. The new year marks the end of Swaledale’s trials, and finds us with more tea than we know what to do with.

Download MP3 audio – 8:44, 8.55 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Saturday, December 15, 2012. There are few things that can persuade us to go for a run in the cold, but they invariably find us out sooner or later.

Download MP3 audio – 10:40, 12.13 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for December 3rd, 2012. I went for a walk in the woods by the cabin on a moonlit night.

Download MP3 audio – 9:22, 9.72 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Nov. 24, 2012. Every year at about this time I remember the winters I’m glad I’ve left far behind.

Download MP3 audio – 7:32, 5.72 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for November 11, 2012. I elaborate upon my ideal of a college and the search for a lifestyle of literacy.

Download MP3 audio – 4:18, 3.40 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for Nov. 3, 2012. I contemplate going to college late in life.

Download MP3 audio – 7:17, 10.37 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for October 27, 2012: the weather gets colder, and we celebrate Canadian Thanksgiving.

Download MP3 audio – 9:46, 13.78 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for October 20, 2012, in which I try to describe what inspiration sounds like.

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Download MP3 audio – 5:56, 8.63 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for August 19, 2012: a short memory of a long discussion last May, and my search for a new secret bunker.

Download MP3 audio – 7:44, 11.09 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for August 4, 2012, about an outdoor concert at the Lake Harriet bandshell, and the planes flying overhead.

Download MP3 audio – 8:46, 12.52 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for July 22, 2012. The garage having remained a dusty shrine to the long construction project, we conceived of the idea of hosting a garage sale in the hottest weather of the year as a way of cleaning it out.

Download MP3 audio – 10:36, 15.03 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for July 7, 2012, about a reunion in the Northwoods with some men I haven’t seen in a long time.

Download MP3 audio – 10:15, 14.16 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for June 23rd, 2012, inspired by our recent visit to family in Niagara Falls.

Download MP3 audio – 6:59, 10.06 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for June 6, 2012, where Trixie and I long to go on pilgrimages, and in fact do so.