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Brown on the Air: SIBLINGS
My essay for the Saturday, Jan. 10 edition of KAXE’s weekly program “Between You and Me” will join the show’s topic of “Siblings.” I compare the experiences of having siblings while growing up and then raising siblings as an adult. I also try to explain why my actions caused two major incidents involving hornets and…
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Brown on the Air: TIME and TIME AGAIN
My weekly essay for the KAXE Saturday morning program “Between You and Me” focuses on the show’s topic of “Time.” Specifically, host Heidi Holtan and the listeners will be talking about ways to better use time in the new year. My piece is entitled “The Seven Habits of Highly Stressed Parents” which pretty much speaks…
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Brown on the Air: ICE!
My weekly essay for Saturday morning’s episode of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE will cover the show’s topic of “ice.” Ice is a big deal in Northern Minnesota. Ice on roads. Ice on lakes. Ice in drinks. Ice really covers the gamut. My essay explores the world of ice and will again serve…
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Brown on the Air: Holiday Traditions and Mishaps
My radio essay for the Saturday morning KAXE program “Between You and Me” will deal with holiday traditions and mishaps in keeping with the call-in/music program’s weekly theme. I will discuss how one of my family’s traditions is threatened by the government. Let’s just leave it at that. Sound’s interesting, huh? Tune in between 10…
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Brown on the Air: Hot Stove League
This week, the Saturday morning 91.7 KAXE call-in and music show “Between You and Me” explores “hot stove league,” or, in layman’s terms, sports talk in the winter. Scott Hall and Fred Friedman will guest host the 10 a.m. to noon program. Their sports expertise is second to none; both can cite statistics for 1950s…
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Brown on the Air: TV SHOWS!
The topic on this Saturday’s “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE is “Favorite TV shows.” What is your favorite TV show and why? What is the significance of these shows and what do they mean about you? Us? The world? I’ll be chiming in about my favorite shows, including “WKRP in Cincinnati.” Do I…
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Grand Rapids tonight!
Allow me to remind you of tonight’s KAXE Book Club and Grand Rapids Public Library appearances for my “Overburden” book tour. 5:30 p.m.Potluck KAXE Book Club MeetingKAXE StudiosPublic is welcomeDiscussion and Q/A 7 p.m.Reading and Book SigningGrand Rapids Public LibraryFree, open to the public KAXE is located next to the library. I’m going to try…
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West Side Story
My book tour brings me back to Grand Rapids this upcoming week for a reading and my first book club discussion. The first rule about Book Club is that you must talk incessantly about Book Club. The second rule about Book Club is that you must say the same thing in a slightly different way…
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Brown on the Air: BIG CITY
My essay for the Saturday KAXE program “Between You and Me” this week deals with the show’s topic: Big City. What is the “big city” in your world? As a station that covers the vast region of northern Minnesota, from Brainerd to Bemidji to Grand Rapids and the Iron Range, KAXE will be beaming this…
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Thank you, Ely
Last night brought another fine evening of discussion on my “Overburden” Iron Range book tour. This time the venue was the lecture hall at Vermilion Community College. Though the audience was primarily “captive” (my colleague and host Pam Brunfelt’s Minnesota History class) many community members and other students also came out for the reading and…
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Up north, the front line in the battle over ‘new’ journalism
Here’s an interesting post from “Graham” at Entrecard, a traffic service for bloggers. He suggests, tongue in cheek, that it’s the journalism industry that really needs a bailout. Here’s an excerpt: I don’t have the solutions, but I know four things about the future of journalism, blogging, and newspapers: Print newspapers will die. People will…
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Brown(s) on the Air: GIFTS
My essay this Saturday for “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE focuses on this week’s topic of “gifts.” I talk about the trip into the den of girl clothes that men often must make in the early stages of a relationship. The story I tell has the added benefit of being about the woman…
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Brown on the Air: DEER!
My weekly essay for the Saturday, Nov. 15, 2008 edition of “Between You and Me” on 91.7 KAXE deals with deer. Yes, you probably remember my run-in with a deer in my car from a few weeks ago and my recent trip to the hunting shack for the purposes of not hunting. Well, this essay…
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Brown on the Air: TEACHERS
My weekly contribution to KAXE’s Saturday morning program “Between You and Me” will join the show’s topic: favorite teachers. Who was your favorite teacher, and/or why? I talk about the topic through the lens of someone who owes much to many of my past teachers and who, unexpectedly, has become a teacher. You can tune…
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Brown on the Air: SUPPORT KAXE
“Between You and Me,” the Saturday morning call-in and music show to which I contribute weekly essays, is taking a break this week as the independent public station’s fall fundraiser comes to a close. So instead of promoting a Saturday essay I’m going to request that all of you who are not currently members of…