Cornflakes
Who would guess that there’s a story in cornflakes? Shelley Fraser Mickle has one for us today on this toasted American institution.
Laughter
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Laughter.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 2/7/2001 Laughter Transcript This is Love May Make The World Go Round, But Laughter Keeps Us From Getting Dizzy Week. So it’s a good idea to arm yourself with a few jokes when you go out into the world today, because it’s no […]
Talk to Your Cat Day
Today, Shelley Fraser Mickle is remembering an intriguing conversation – with a cat.
Reach Your Potential Month
Reaching potentials: Shelley Fraser Mickle has some thoughts on that for us 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 […]
Believe It or Not
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Ripleys-Believe-It-or-Not.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 12/13/2000 Believe It or Not Transcript Believe it or not, here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle with a remembering about Robert Ripley: In 1913, Robert Ripley was hired as a cartoonist for the New York Globe. Five years later, he was worrying about coming up […]
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 […]
