My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

Owen is the most Hitchcockian preschooler I ever met. He's three. He knows maybe ninety word and one of them is 'crypt'?

Except for the people who were there that one day they discovered the polio vaccine, being part of history is rarely a good idea. History is one war after another with a bunch of murders and natural disasters in between.

My lips are chapped from the winds of change.

I still believe in public radio's potential. Because it's the one mass medium that's still crafted almost entirely by true believers.

Part of the success of This American Life, I think, is due to the fact that none of us sound like we should be on the radio. We don't sound professional; we sound like people you would know.

Along with voting, jury duty, and paying taxes, goofing off is one of the central obligations of American citizenship.