Martha Woodroof

When you know that you (not to put too fine a point on it) don't have much time:  should you rush to get through a "bucket list" of life experiences --or should you actually slow down to really notice your loved ones?  Keith Shank talks about having Parkinson's Disease. 

The story includes a reading of a passage from a book by author/skull-tattooed-guy/rascal/genius Harry Crews --a scene where a 12-year-old boy discovers both nudity and God at the same event.  We talk with David Jeffrey, the self-appointed one-person Society for the Preservation of the Writings of the Late (and Great) Harry Crews.  

Maybe someday ten thousand vuvuzelas will drone for him.  Henry Gotay surprised others and himself with keen inate soccer ability.  He's hoping to score a soccer scholarship to college.  He's been practicing his game and his English.

Charlottesville’s Kathleen Maier has been a practicing herbalist for 20 years. She works to restore native species through United Plant Savers and is the co-author of a book on bush medicine.  

An essay from Kim Johnson

In Charlottesville to assist with the Look3 Festival of the Photograph,  Alex Chadwick hangs out on a downtown  porch chatting  with WMRA's Martha Woodroof . 

Sara Holdren, now a MFA candidate in directing at the School of Drama  at Yale, spent what seemed like forever preparing to stage the pre-Soviet Russian play "He Who Gets Slapped" at Live Arts. 

JMU's  Bob Roberts appears on all sorts of news shows as a politics expert.  Just who is Bob Roberts?  We ask Bob.