1543 Episodes

  1. 684: I Would Do Anything For Love, But I Won't

    Published: 5/27/2022

  2. 683: I Have a Rendezvous With Life

    Published: 5/26/2022

  3. 682: At Forty, the Mountains Are More Green

    Published: 5/25/2022

  4. 681: The Point

    Published: 5/24/2022

  5. 680: The Years That The Days and Months Turned Into

    Published: 5/23/2022

  6. 679: Self-Care

    Published: 5/20/2022

  7. 678: You're the One I Wanna Watch the Last Ships Go Down With

    Published: 5/19/2022

  8. 677: Practicing

    Published: 5/18/2022

  9. 676: Last Sundays at Bootleggers

    Published: 5/17/2022

  10. 675: [chiasmus with all the other animals]

    Published: 5/16/2022

  11. 674: My Ornithology (Orange-crowned Warbler)

    Published: 5/13/2022

  12. 673: New Town

    Published: 5/12/2022

  13. 672: The Cattle Dog

    Published: 5/11/2022

  14. 671: September

    Published: 5/10/2022

  15. 670: Think of Me, Laughing

    Published: 5/9/2022

  16. 669: Blueberries for Cal

    Published: 5/6/2022

  17. 668: Lament

    Published: 5/5/2022

  18. 667: Now That You've Met God, Where to Go From Here

    Published: 5/4/2022

  19. 666: Against Mastery

    Published: 5/3/2022

  20. 665: Metro-North

    Published: 5/2/2022

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