With radio, the listener absorbs everything.

Public radio has always been so powerless.

I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.

At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.

It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.

I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.

I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.