Willie Mae
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Willie-Mae.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 2/1/2000 Willie Mae Transcript When I was growing up in Arkansas in the early fifties, my grandmother had a woman who came to work at her house several times a week. She was black, and her name was Willie Mae. You see, my […]
Lines of Communication
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Lines-of-Communication.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 1/20/2000 Lines of Communication Transcript The day my brother and I decided to make homemade walkie talkies, I was nine and it was 1953. Ordinarily we didn’t have much to say to each other, and what we did say wasn’t always nice. But […]
Oatmeal
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Oatmeal.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 1/7/2000 Oatmeal Transcript My whole life has been mixed up with oatmeal, and some of it I don’t even like to talk about. It started back when I was four. Of course before then I’m sure I’d had oatmeal. No doubt it had […]
Sawed-Off Santa
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Sawed-Off-Santa.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/24/1999 Sawed-Off Santa Transcript It was 9:43a.m. The headmistress’s voice sounded desperate. “Don Hern has the flu. He was going to play Santa for us today, so will you do it?” I guess word had gotten around that I owned a Santa suit. […]
Halcyon Days
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Halcyon-Days.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/15/1999 Halcyon Days Transcript There’s always a time in the middle of the holidays when I just want to cry uncle. “Oh, let’s do away with all this hubbub,” I think. “I can’t take it anymore!” Usually that’s the day on which I […]
The Invention of the Pencil Sharpener
The first pencil sharpener was patented 102 years ago today by J. L. Love. Shelley Fraser Mickle is here today to tell us about how that invention changed her life.
National Homemade Bread Day
Today is National Homemade Bread Day, and Shelley Fraser Mickle has some thoughts about the subject that have stuck with her for a long time.
Remembering Pinocchio
Later this month, it’s the birthday of the Italian writer Carlo Collodi. Today, Shelley Fraser Mickle offers a remembering that grows out of his most famous creation, Pinocchio.