Episodes
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Ooops! How embarassing!
Camping out brings you closer to nature.
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Regrets, I have a few . . .
Everyone makes mistakes, don't they? This was a doozy.
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Eat Your Vegetables, An Odyssey
Lessons in survival that every boy should know.
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Out of the Garden
Some events change your way of looking at the world.
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Time Break Two
A session in which my family and I test my hasty theory . . . can it fly? and the result.
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Break Time
This may have happened to you. A careless accident resulting from haste set me to reflect on life.
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Fire Work
This episode is a cautionary tale for young scientists. Some discoveries are dangerous or lead to trouble . . .
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Work in the Hospital is not for everyone
There is no substitute for experience. A Summer job can teach you a lot, or so I concluded.
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Drug Store
Working as a paper boy gave way to a more serious job and the excitement of working for Slattery's Pharmacy.
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The Spitting Image
Reflections on memory and my first job
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Trouble
Not everyone has your best interests at heart.
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Magic Man
Do you believe in magic? This is the story of how magic entered my life.
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Off the Beaten Path
A time it was good to do one of those matters that had been put off . . . til someday.
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More Aesop
In the The Fox and the Crow, the sly fox demonstrates how it is done. In The Mouse and The Lion the clever mouse repays a favor.
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A reading from Aesop's Fables
The ancient story of the race between the hare and the tortoise. The wise old story of the cat's discussion of how to put a bell on the cat.
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My Moment of Zen
A story for a cold and nasty day
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Song of the Lake
Memories of a family vacation that now seems as if it was in another world.
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Playing With Fire
So here it is revealed that I was not always a model child.
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Lumpy Ribs
Early memories of breakfast oatmeal call up scenes from childhood
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97th Street
Grandpa Bill describes his house and old neighborhood on the far south side of Chicago.
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Help Needed
A story about asking for help from Grandpa Bill.