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. […]
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 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.
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.
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.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Jonas-Salk.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 10/28/1999 Jonas Salk Transcript Here is Shelley Fraser Mickle with a remembering for us. Today is Jonas Salk’s birthday. He would be eighty-five if he were still with us. His life and mine were interwoven, though we never met. On the day I […]
Today, in honor of Pet Peeve Week, Shelley Fraser Mickle tells us about a peeve that’s stuck with her since childhood.
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Little-Women.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/30/1999 Little Women Transcript John Cech: It’s the anniversary of the publication of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women, which first appeared in 1868. Here today is Shelley Fraser Mickle with her personal reflections on this classic. Shelley: When I was growing up in […]