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National Bubblegum Week

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/National-Bubblegum-Week.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/17/2000 National Bubblegum Week Transcript This is National Bubblegum Week, and I have to admit bubblegum has gotten me into some of the deepest trouble I’ve ever been in in my life, and then, it has gotten me out. Specifically, I am talking […]

First Remembered Poem

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/First-Remembered-Poem.mp3 Author Shelley Fraser Mickle Air Date 4/6/2000 The term Poetry – dictionary definition highlighted with yellow marker First Remembered Poem Transcript When I think of my first remembered poem, a warm spring day in 1952 marches through my memory so that I am once again in Mrs. Hopkins’ third […]

April Fool’s Day

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering, just in time for April Fool's Day.

Optimism

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering for National Optimism Month.

Penmanship

Listen to the Recess! Clip https://recess.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/42/Penmanship.mp3 Author Shelley Mickle Fraser Air Date 3/16/2000 Women holding a pens writing a notebook. Recording concept Penmanship Transcript Penmanship is more than learning how to put words on paper. For a grade school child, moving from printing to cursive is like a teenager getting his driver’s license. Today, children […]

Overdue

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering about overdue library books.

Shelley’s Valentines

Here's a Shelley Fraser Mickle remembering, just in time for Valentine's Day.

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 […]