Saturday, December 20, 2008

Please Lord, NOT The Last Studio Mix!


It's a remarkably snowy afternoon here in Stumptown, perfect for a PETA snowball fight or an unconscionably polluting wood fire. (I'd also suggest cuddling, heavy petting, and so very much more but I try not to go there during a dry spell while I've no one to go there with).

But here I am doing what I love the most and do the best: making radio in the kitchen with Dinah, a.k.a. studio engineer Steve Kray, the beating heart of OPB and the rhythm guy for Lockboxx.

We're tracking and mixing #3 and #4 in my American Moxie series for NPR, my last pieces as a senior correspondent. My last pieces ever? EVER? No freaking way, can't be. Maybe the last piece that I'm paid well for, but to think "last piece" is to close a door I am unwilling to even acknowledge.

No door here, just an open-air cabana with views into the jungle...where I hope to be as soon as I can catch a flight. I'm thinking the Osa Peninsula of Costa Rica.

5 comments:

  1. Imma be a homer here: Corn Island in Nicaragua. you're gonna have to get on a propeller plane and you'll be in the country's autonomous region, but it's beautiful and waaaay cheaper than Costa Rica.
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  2. I just heard your last report on ABC News Radio in Australia and was fascinated by your Moxie series as I had never heard it before. It sounds so inspiring and as I work in community engagement and capacity building it got my brain ticking over with lateral thoughts. Would love to chat online or something sometime and compare notes/stories. (Mark Meyer - lebon@internode.on.net)
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  3. I too appreciated your American Moxie series, and was dismayed to hear at the end of the last installment that NPR has laid you off. Will we hear you on the radio again? I sure hope so.

    Scott McAlpine
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  4. I just heard your 'moxie' programe on NPR. I don't know wheather you are aware of how much it really helps people out there. I've been working with cancer patiants, helping them find their inner moxie, which gives meaning to their life.
    I wish you to be your own best friend, and listening to your inner voice which will direct you on the new way.
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  5. Thank you so much for your American Moxie series. It has been a wonderful to listen to in the traffic on my way to work. Listening to these people and their inner strength makes me have hope for our country. I wish you the best on your next piece and NPR lost a great reporter.
    Robert R in DC
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