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I am writing from Scotland. My husband, David Tarbet, and I are fortunate enough to spend many months every year in the village of Tongland, which is outside Kirkcudbright in Southwest Scotland. We’ve...

THE DEARNESS OF THINGS From 1955 to 2002, I owned and lost eleven cats, five dogs, one guinea pig, two turtles, twenty-five newts and salamanders, two goats, two Brahmin Roosters, one Brahmin Hen, one...

I’ve been a fan of This American Life since 1996, when it first came to our NPR stations in Boston. Ira Glass has become part of my generation’s family – the bright younger brother with so much to sa...

  When we lived in Newfoundland, Pennsylvania, deer hunters wandered the back roads every weekend in the fall.  Carrying their guns or their bows and arrows,  the men walked with confidence over our l...