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Soup Month

It's National Soup Month, and guess what Shelley Fraser Mickle is remembering today.

The Best Present

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Best-Present.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/25/2000 christmas gifts on white background The Best Present Transcript In 1958, I was an awkward fourteen-year old whose cat had just been run over. I’d found that cat when I was eight years old, and it had been the cat of my […]

David’s Dreidel

Hanukkah begins tomorrow, and Barry Stewart Mann has a story for us today to mark the holiday.

Scotch Tape

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scotch-Tape.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/7/2000 Scotch Tape Transcript In 1928, a painter at an auto plant was working on a two-tone paint job when he was given some masking tape with the adhesive left off of the center to save money. He put it on the car […]

Random Acts of Kindness

Today, Shelley Fraser Mickle recalls a memorable trip to the circus.

Doctor Musica

It's Child Health Month, and Barry Stewart Mann has a story for us today about a child's musical trip to the doctor.

Family History Month

Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/12/2000 Family History Month Transcript Shelley Fraser Mickle has a history lesson for us in her Remembering for today. Sooner or later it hits every kid– usually around October which is Family History Month, a fact that few people know but that every grade school teacher in the universe […]

The Jason Project

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jason-Project.mp3 Author Koren Stembridge Air Date 10/6/2000 The Jason Project Transcript One rainy summer vacation afternoon my father attempted to cheer me up by promising a day-trip to the old city of St. Augustine, Florida. As the daughter of a writer, I was not surprised, but still chagrined, to find […]

Communicate with Your Kids Month

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Communicate-with-kids.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/5/2000 Communicate With Your Kids Transcript Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle with this week’s remembering — about that most basic activity between parents and their children- communication. This is National Communicate With Your Kids Month, which is probably 99 percent of what parenting is […]

Scarecrows

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Scarecrows.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/21/2000 Scarecrows Transcript In Lahaska, Pennsylvania this month, there is a festival and display devoted to scarecrows. Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about that ancient agrarian practice:  Shelley: When I was twelve, my neighbor was Tommy Kincaid, and Mrs. […]