Silent Bronze
Essay Americana
What do we learn from our grandparents that we didn't get to know? This essay explores those questions of what we get when we ask if they would be proud of how we turned out.
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Hero?
Essay Americana
This essay is part of the series, "Asphalt Blackboard: Life Lessons from America's Highways." It examines how we are socially programed to respond to a crisis and what it means to be a hero.
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Season 2, Ep. 1 Stranger Relief at Thanksgiving
Essay Americana
In this time of COVID-19, social distancing, and sheltering in place, why not look at family dynamics in the form of a major holiday?
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Comic Book Blues
Essay Americana
Art, pop culture, comic books, movies, tv, and compulsive behavior. This episode deals with all that, as well as taking a hard look at when we cut out parts of ourselves in order to "fit in" and what it means to reclaim parts of our personality we should have never let go.
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What's a Life Worth?
Essay Americana
This month's essay looks at the fundamental question--how we determine the value of a life.
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Hallowed Ground
Essay Americana
What do we hold sacred? What is truly hallowed ground? A massive church that's been turned into a disco and two battlefields are the backdrop for this interesting essay about what we value and why.
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Nurse Logs
Essay Americana
What do we owe the past? This essay, the third from “Asphalt Blackboard: Life Lessons form America’s Highways” series, explores that question from the only temperate rain forest in the world.
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Follow the Leader
Essay Americana
Leadership. It's the Hoy Grail of the business world. It took a cold day in whitewater to teach how Americans' view leadership and a possible new approach.
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Unplugged
Essay Americana
Changes to rural Montana, the Great American Road Trip, and becoming unmoored from you daily life all teaching something about life in the modern United States.
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Memorial Service
Essay Americana
A memorial service serves as the backdrop for a reflection on church culture and who gets to stand behind the alter.
info_outlineEssay Americana captures snapshots of American life in the late 20th and early 21st centuries. Topics covered include work, relationships, history, leadership, self-identity, and others.
This episode looks at the positive consequences of unlearning a well intentioned lie all mothers tell their children.