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        "Hello, my name is Jackie, and I used to be afraid of the iPad."If a twelve step program existed for people who are addicted to the familiar, I'd be attending meetings every night.   Along with my gray hair and reading glasses, I've come to realize that what gives away my advancing age most of all is my attitude of avoidance when I have to quickly learn something new.  I'm generally […]

It's ten pm, the dinner dishes are done, and you've just settled down with a bowl of ice cream to watch the evening news.  Angela Hill looks radiant wearing her rose blouse behind the desk (stay with me here--yes, I know she has retired, but don't you WISH you could still have her to read the news to you while you dig into some Haagen Daas  French vanilla?) and she […]

RRRRRIIIIINNNNGGG! "Hello, this is WRBH." "Hi, I'm calling because I'm curious about how I can become a volunteer.  I heard about your station from a friend, and since I used to be a disc jockey..." "Have you had experience reading aloud?" "No, but I used to have a radio show where my partner and I did a comedy routine with sound effects and took calls from listeners, and I'm great […]

Last month, every magazine WRBH received had a cover story that screamed Christmas.  After perusing 30 magazines with glossy pages of red and green and sparkles and getting thoroughly bored with cookies, a shift has occurred: all I see in January are lists, lists, and more lists--from People and Time to Entertainment Weekly and Newsweek and beyond, just about everything that's been read on the air this week contained a […]

As I was doing the programming for this week, it struck me that magazines in December tend to be pretty much all alike.  I’m not talking about political magazines or the periodicals with a certain slant, like The Sun or The Nation or Reason, I mean the magazines that you can pick up in the doctor’s office, like Good Housekeeping and Ladies’ Home Journal and Redbook, dedicated to giving good […]

This weekend, I want you to try something.  When you sit down to eat a meal (it can be any meal-- breakfast, lunch or dinner) don't look down at your plate and decide what to eat first.  Close your eyes, take your spoon or fork, and pick up the first bite without really seeing what might be on your utensil.  Yes, I know, if you served yourself the plate you'll […]

    If you've ever watched Family Feud (and we certainly did when reader Ronnie Virgets was on the program with his daughters, responding to topics like "Name the best place to go on a first date!" with answers like "The place where they make all the milkshakes!" and to his credit, I don't think he was referring to the ones that bring the boys to the yard) then you know […]

By now our listeners are very familiar with our mission: "Turning the written word into the spoken word so that the blind, print handicapped,  and those who cannot read for whatever reason can be every bit as informed as their sighted peers."  The spoken word is what comes through the speakers when you tune in to 88.3 FM any time of the day or night, thanks to the time and […]

   I'm not the type of person who likes to take trips alone.  I love how conversation makes the drive so much shorter, how easy it is to bond over mutually appreciated music, and how the sights and landmarks along the way seem more interesting and vivid if you've got a friend to point them out to you (because you really should be concentrating on your driving, after all.)  There […]