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 […]
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 […]
Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Dogs.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 9/27/2000 Dogs Transcript Here’s Shelley Fraser Mickle, remembering for us. This is National Dog Week, which means we ought to look around and thank every dog we see for being a dog. Because what’s so wonderful about these animals is that sooner or […]
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. […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
