A love affair with a motorcycle and an education without training wheels. (more)

Florence is a city filled with bells: church bells, hand bells, door bells, bike bells . . . (more)

Feminist historian Sally Roesch Wagner muses that well-behaved women rarely make history while mis-behaved radicals, such as 19th century women's rights and peace activist Matilda Joslyn Gage, seldom make history books. (more)

The coveted golden mug award is given to an actor or actress for their portrayal of an independent woman in history. (more)

In the Last Frontier, sometimes it isn't "Go Fish," it's "Go Mouse." (more)

A dollar store addict is confronted with a horrifying discovery among the aisles. (more)

This hour: the wild and wonderful results of the Third Coast Festival's 2007 Audio Challenge: Dollar Storeys. (more)

Context is a bitch -- just ask mice. On earth they're seen as pests and carriers of disease, but space is another story altogether. (more)

Fictional account of bad behavior inspired by the mug. (more)

If Lucy met her best friend in person, her life expectancy would be cut in half. (more)

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main . . . any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee." - John Donne (1572-1631) (more)

The "Miss Cholita" pageant celebrates a female ideal that is fast disappearing among Bolivian indigenous women. This year, the pageant was shaken by a scandal: the winner had turned out to have been wearing fake braids. (more)

This hour: a surprising look at the relationship between a hospice worker and his patient. (more)

The Avant Guardian fights crime using the power of surrealism and his trusty P.S.M.G. (more)

This is a highly fictionalized retelling of a real life tale of the trapping and killing of a mouse in Fresno, California. (more)

Composer Mark Applebaum describes the creative process he uses when inventing new instruments. He calls one of them "The Mouse Trap." (more)

Making cold calls, in search of warmth. (more)

A guy drifts back to the years he drove around on his bike, when he should be meditating. (more)

An extraordinary day in the life of an ordinary worker. (more)

A story of nursery rhymes and life with mice. (more)