A few weeks ago, we asked you to send us your stories of unforgettable neighbors. Here’s one from Wisconsin listener Donna Jaehrling.
Intelligent. Optimistic. Curious.
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Laurel Kendall is one of the curators of "Mythic Creatures," a blockbuster exhibition at the American Natural History Museum.
Lynn Sharon Schwartz is a veteran traveler and novelist but has admitted to herself that at this stage in her life, she is over traveling.
Is mathematics what's most real in the universe? MIT physicist Max Tegmark thinks so, and he says it's likely we live in one of many parallel universes.
Odessa Piper is the chef and proprietor of L’Etoile Restaurant in Madison, Wisconsin and a champion of cuisine prepared from locally available food.
Jeanne Safer and Richard Brookhiser would seem like an unlikely couple. She's a lifelong liberal, while he's a senior editor for the conservative National Review, and yet the two have been happily married for more than 35 years. They shared the secrets of a lasting marriage across party lines.
Children’s author Katherine Paterson tells Steve Paulson that too many people deny the emotional reality of childhood. Her books are popular because she recognizes the fears children face.
Michael Dirda tells Anne Strainchamps that modern readers of Beowulf owe a great deal to J.R.R. Tolkien.
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