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For the small amount of research done for today's show, the host of Self Help Radio discoverd that 1 in 8 Americans live in apartments.  He also found out that there were no apartments in the United States for its first one hundred years.  & he read a lot more but he's forg... Read more

*Sigh.* A show about sighing. Mainly music, a little poetry, way too many sighs. But what did you expect? During the show, a wonderful article about sighing is excerpted.  It's this one: "Why We Sigh" by Shayla Love on vice.com.  It's a lovely read. The creator of the orig... Read more

"Golden" may feel like a color but it's an adjective describing something that resembles a color - & much more!  It actually began life meaning "made of gold" - but there's so much more to the word these days.  You can live your golden years peacefully or you can take a gol... Read more

Please be aware the person responsible for Self Help Radio is not an anatomist nor has ever received any training about the human body.  Which is an admonition that perhaps some of the things you'll hear on this show are going to be wrong. That being said, there sure were ... Read more

Yards? What kinda yards? Backyards, barnyards, beeyards? Boatyards, brickyards, churchyards? Courtyards, deeryards, dockyards? Dooryards, foreyards, frontyards? Junkyards, rail yards, schoolyards? Scrapyards, shipyards, steelyards? Stockyards, stableyards, switchyards? Tilt... Read more

The final show during the KBOO Spring Membership Drive - the "Hive Drive" - in which we've explored bees, honey, buzzing, & stinging - is simply about flowers.  Those beautiful things which make Portland so lovely in the spring, & which give the bees something to do. If yo... Read more

It's important to note at the outset that, despite that picture to the right (about which more later), this show was not about the musician Sting, but about things that sting - specially bees, since it's part of the theme of the KBOO Spring Membership Drive.  While we did t... Read more