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Saturday, August 13, 2022

The Welcome Back

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On August 13, 2016, we'd been back in Texas for less than two weeks.  It had not been a happy return - my wife hated the house we rented...
Friday, August 12, 2022

Spring Was Lovely This Year

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Over on my personal Facebook page but also on the Self Help Radio Tumblr  I've been sharing some of the lovely pictures of spring that I...
Tuesday, August 09, 2022

Self Help Radio 080922: Attics

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What might happen on a radio show about attics?  I mean, you know, besides all the songs about attics?  Might a phrogger be hiding in the at...
Monday, August 08, 2022

Whither Attics?

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Attics are delightful & creepy. They're mysterious & a bit frightening. I wish I had grown up with an attic to play in. & I ...
Sunday, August 07, 2022

Preface To Attics: I Once Had An Attic

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& it looked like that. This was when we lived in Huntington, West Virginia, from the summer of 2009 to the summer of 2010.  It was quite...
Saturday, August 06, 2022

Three Snapshots Of August 6, 2017

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Five years ago, I was living in Fort Worth, Texas.  Summers in Texas are brutal.  Possibly on our morning walk, I took this picture, which I...
Friday, August 05, 2022

Fire On My Street

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Behold! A page from a neighborhood newspaper called The Bee, which is online here , reported on a fire that happened ON MY STREET it's t...
Tuesday, August 02, 2022

Self Help Radio 080222: The Middle

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(I tried to get the bear right in the middle...) Thinking about the middle things that are  not  represented on this show - the Middle Way (...
Monday, August 01, 2022

Whither The Middle?

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(image from here .) Tonight's Self Help Radio on KBOO has the theme "the middle."  What might that mean?  Middle of the road (...
Sunday, July 31, 2022

Preface To The Middle: Middle School

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(My old middle school is no longer a middle school. Image from Gurple Marps .) Memorial Middle School was my middle school, which I attended...
Saturday, July 30, 2022

Movies About Ponies

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(image from the IMDb ) It was one of those happy weeks this past week when our resident cinephile Chuck came by to talk about movies having ...
Friday, July 29, 2022

Books About Ponies

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(all images from Goodreads ) This week on the show - our show about ponies - we had a very welcome visit by our favorite librarian, Carole, ...
Tuesday, July 26, 2022

Self Help Radio 072622: Ponies

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(Original image  here .) Looking around the interwebs, I couldn't find an answer to the question, What do kids want more, a dog or a pon...
Monday, July 25, 2022

Whither Ponies?

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(Found on the internet many years ago, can't remember where.) A few years back, someone asked me if I had ever done a Self Help Radio ep...
Sunday, July 24, 2022

Preface To Ponies: My Little Pony

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(Cute! Image from here .) Wikipedia tells me, "My Pretty Pony is a pony figurine introduced by Hasbro in 1981 that was created by illu...
Saturday, July 23, 2022

Russian House Russian Elegant Food

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According to emoregon.org , "More than 100,000 Slavic-speaking refugees & immigrants from the former Soviet Union currently reside ...
Friday, July 22, 2022

The Oldest Image On My Computer

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Is this one: It's dated October 1995. I can't recall if I scanned it from some book - which is likely, since there weren't lots ...
Tuesday, July 19, 2022

Self Help Radio 071922: 1986 (Continued)

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(Every darn cover image from Discogs .) Wow. I've played six hours of music (minus some of my talking) from 1986 & I'm not entir...
Monday, July 18, 2022

Whither 1986 (Continued)?

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Self-Portrait With Facial Hair, 1986 The reason for this show is being eighteen years old. It's discovering a world of music one didn...
Sunday, July 17, 2022

Preface To 1986 (Continued): Idea For A Podcast

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(image from here .) Says the Wikipedia , "At Last The 1948 Show is a satirical television show that brought Cambridge Footlights humor ...