Beginnings and Endings
Lunar Datebook
Lunar Datebook episode 103 looks at beginnings and endings. Host Jennifer Ellsworth shares about her two first kisses, and reminisces about her days farming.
info_outline
Waldo County Smackdown! Jello Wrestling! Belfast vs. Interior Waldo County! The Movie!
Lunar Datebook
You are invited to watch the film of the event. Jamie "The Talons" Edwards takes on Jenny "Coydog" Tibbetts in this colorful battle for small town supremacy....
info_outline
A Love Letter to Chase's Daily
Lunar Datebook
Host Jennifer Ellsworth is leaving Chase's Daily and Chase Farm, but before she goes she offers these lessons.
info_outline
Moving Blood and "Obedience"
Lunar Datebook
Moving blood. This is the clinical definition of life as we know it—a beating heart, circulating oxygen rich blood through the body. It is also the evolutionary end game. Reproduction. Moving our bloodline forward. And a metaphor for inheritance. These themes converge in this season's episode. Host Jennifer Ellsworth interviews dancer Shana Bloomstein, founder of Women's Works, about a piece she created with her daughter. And we read a short story about a gift passed down, called “Obedience.”
info_outline
Eddie Wonders Why—Act 2
Lunar Datebook
Act 2 of A Lunar Datebook Production's "Eddie Wonders Why," a radio play based on Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex" where the ancient king becomes a modern mafia lord.
info_outline
Eddie Wonders Why—Act 1
Lunar Datebook
Host Jennifer Ellsworth reimagines the Sophocles' classic "Oedipus Rex" as a modern mafia drama "Eddie Wonders Why." Today's episode features Act 1 of this summer's Lunar Datebook production.
info_outline
Old School: interviews with Don Schultz and Danny Lobo
Lunar Datebook
Host Jennifer Ellsworth interviews former Mount View High School history teacher Don Schultz and Middle School Spanish teacher Danny Lobo for their thoughts on public education as she prepares to send her oldest son to kindergarten.
info_outline
Gemini Lessons and "Amen"
Lunar Datebook
Lessons learned from the twins Castor and Pollux that make up the Gemini constellation. Also how to survive as a stage-whore-homebody, and a short story about escaping an abusive childhood.
info_outline
Spring Soapbox: Star Wars Philosophy and Instant Karma
Lunar Datebook
Host Jennifer Ellsworth explores the intersection between religion, science, and Star Wars. May the Force be with you....
info_outline
High Flight: Remembering Grandpa
Lunar Datebook
Lunar Datebook departs from its usual format to honor WWII pilot and POW, Roland E. Stumpff: host Jennifer Ellsworth's grandfather. She uses John Gillespie Magee Jr.'s famous poem "High Flight" as a guide to this man's extraordinary life.
info_outlineEpisode 80—January 27, 2017
Can dreams tell the future? What happens when we die? Host Jennifer Ellsworth explores some of Life's mysteries with Joe Asciello as he recounts a boating accident he saw coming. She'll also share the outline for a tough talk with her children and a poem about a sweet farewell with her grandmother. It's called "The View of Planet Earth From Room 216."
"...In her delirium Grandma shops at the open market.
'They’ve got sausages drying,' she gestures
to the fluids dripping into her IV..."
Moon Astrology: New Sap Moon in Aquarius: All together now.
Righting itself in the water, a not-fancy fish, and marveling at them all.