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                                          WISH NUMBER 1:  Ever imagined you had a magic wand and could just close your eyes, wave it around, and suddenly everything is made more beautiful?  Wouldn't you love to be able to turn less into more and convert pumpkins into carriages, mice into footmen, and rags into ballgowns? Well, on this special day, you can (figuratively) do something magical.  Today you have the power to be a fairy […]

READ ALL ABOUT IT :    Along with the comprehensive daily schedule that Rachel posts every day on our Facebook wall, we also have a generic paper schedule listing the times and names of all of our programs.  It doesn't state which midday short story or monthly magazine is being aired on any particular day, it only states that one will be broadcast at the time listed.  This is usually […]

    Since the last blog entry was all about change and how we are affected by it, in both good ways and in bad, I thought I'd explore the topic of change a little further and examine the subject of loss.  "Loss" was one of the topics given to the KIPP Renaissance students last year for their poetry project at WRBH, and it was fascinating and certainly heartbreaking to read […]

        "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 […]