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Lies

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lies.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/15/2000 Lies Transcript There is no documented evidence on when we, as a species, first discovered that we can lie. When I think back, it seems to me I came up with my first whopper when I was four. By four, you have […]

Family Fun Month

Here's Shelley Fraser Mickle, still having fun.

National Smile Week

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for National Smile Week.

Mosquitoes

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Mosquitoes.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 8/1/2000 Mosquitos Transcript This is National Mosquito Week, which I don’t think means that we are supposed to stop work and take time to honor the mosquito so much as to stop work and realize that if we aren’t being bitten by one, […]

Hot Dogs

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Hot-Dogs.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 7/25/2000 Hot Dogs Transcript I can’t remember the first time I ate a hot dog. But I can remember the first time a hot dog slipped out of its bun while I was eating it. I was five, and the mustard ruined my […]

Voices

Here's Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for us.

Boredom

Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about one of the by-products of summer for children: boredom.

Last Day of School

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for that yearly miracle - the last day of school.

Pop Goes the Weasel Day

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for Pop Goes the Weasel Day.

Ice Cream

Shelley Fraser Mickle has a remembering for us today about that most summery of inventions: ice cream.