Howell Creek Radio

Download MP3 audio – 6:09, 8.61 MB – or Read Transcript Radio address for February 17, 2010, guest-starring my Smith-Corona Super Sterling (not, as it might sound, a gun, but a typewriter). The excerpt at the end is from Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens, Book I, ch. XV.

Download MP3 audio – 8:05, 11.27 MB – or Read Transcript Some things are hidden from your senses until you say “yes.”

Download MP3 audio – 5:22, 7.38 MB – or Read Transcript How far apart we are when we start; how good it really is to come on board!

Download MP3 audio – 11:08, 15.92 MB Hammer-swinging and lumber-fumbling are happily put on hold due to fresh snow. I form a new exclusive association based on a silly battle cry. Notion-planting is examined, and ending notes are struck on a bell, the moon, and a star.

Download MP3 audio – 9:05, 12.94 MB Radio address for Feb 11, 2009. Some kinds of honey are a little too authentic, even for me.

Download MP3 audio – 7:49, 11.21 MB An impression of January that is fine, lasting, and hard to convey; some poetry; and a small dose of tired but devoted thought.

Download MP3 audio – 14:11, 19.56 MB In which ever-rarer and older Christmas songs are sampled like fine cheeses.

Download MP3 audio – 15:59, 22.42 MB Radio address for Thanksgiving Day, 2008. The bulk of today’s address comes from Charles Laughton – a part of a 1960s recording that MPR broadcasts every year on Thanksgiving.

Download MP3 audio – 7:01, 10.11 MB Radio address for November 20, 2008, which I saved out of the wastebasket and the cutting floor.

Download MP3 audio – 11:45, 16.59 MB Radio address for November 12, 2008, involving Thermoclines, the Odd Days, and working in the dirt and the dark.

Download MP3 audio – 9:47, 13.91 MB Radio address for November 2, 2008. I opened Pandora’s box the week before all these ghastly holidays, and let out a swarm of dark visions.

Download MP3 audio – 8:20, 11.91 MB Regarding emotions-as-colors, and the coming of snow, and all that that implies. Relish the risk.

Download MP3 audio – 12:08, 16.68 MB Radio address for October 21, 2008, on the number 23, building a house, and some lines from an old biography.

Download MP3 audio – 9:46, 13.41 MB Radio address for October 14, 2008, involving primarily Leaves and Squirrels.

Download MP3 audio – 5:29, 7.55 MB Radio address for October 8, 2008, involving overheard radio snippets, a spot of philosophy, and Snoo’s newfound athleticism.

Download MP3 audio – 5:28, 7.52 MB Involving an evening walk, the two kinds of Qualms, family aliases and the value of fashion even in total darkness.

Download MP3 audio – 6:01, 8.28 MB – or Read Transcript Back from summer break! Bear with me as I reminisce, complain just a little, and talk breifly about Saxon racism.

Download MP3 audio – 16:22, 22.50 MB Bringing you up to speed on beards, racoons, the house project, and my first insurance physical.

Download MP3 audio – 4:29, 6.18 MB I contemplated a summer hiatus. Thoughts on Christ’s perspective. My little sister has easy solutions for hard problems.

Download MP3 audio – 4:36, 6.34 MB I saw a billboard on the way into work. Realtors don’t seem real in pictures, and insurance agents are downright scary.