Many of my most popular stories featured “cold” interviews with everyday people on the city streets Some were topical; others quite personal. Click here to browse!

Americans live under one flag, but the term “Americana” covers an endless array of cultures, practices, beliefs, occupations & attitudes. Find a bushelful here.

This sound-rich section examines music, poetry, fiction, film, architecture, the sacred arts and other forms of creative expression: Missing: macramé & dance.

Included here are radio stories about all things literary, either through interviews with authors, or where the subject matter is based in a published work of fiction, poetry or fact.

Buddhist mindfulness meditation is now also deeply American. Come and meet Buddhist ideas, communities, self-help books and luminaries like the Dalai Lama, Allen Ginsberg and Tara Brach.

“Small worlds contain big worlds.” Come w/ me as I explore the proud and colorful cultures of many of the 47 states and 40-plus countries I’ve visited. NYC too!

Food is one thing all peoples need, and usually enjoy. The foods we eat and share an and how tell you a lot about a culture, its history, its tastes, its taboos and its social and family relationships. Here is a small smorgasbord of my stories about food and all things edible.

The term “health” has many faces – physical, emotional, psychological, even spiritual. These stories offer a wide sampling of my health coverage in recent years.

This section surveys America’s living past in, for instance, Jim Crow, the Holocaust, the 1960s counterculture, audio time capsules and Colonial-era refugees.

These stories reflect the practices & underlying spirit of religious & secular holidays such as Christmas, Valentine’s Day, Labor Day, Memorial Day, Halloween & more.

Other than Native Americans, everyone here came from elsewhere, either by choice by force or through some calamity. Stories about the immigrant experience, and the American experience of immigrants and their contributions and challenges were a staple at Voice of America, and my reportage in particular, which mostly focused on New York Washington immigrant cultures and the African diaspora.

This section offers oodles of my extended-length radio features and documentaries. They are exceedingly diverse & were deeply gratifying to write & produce.

My favorite stories are shot through with sound, whether it's music, melody, sound effects, noise and other atmospherics that underpin the spoken words and ideas. Here is a sampling of stories that focus on music, composers and music-makers themselves.

“Noo Yawk” provides an endless palette of human drama, creativity and (sometimes dark) mojo. It was my goal to see it all and report back. Yo! Hear it here!

Many of my longer, more relaxed interviews range far afield into life stories, intimate self-disclosure, reminiscences, and “tallish” tales. Here’s a heady taste.

A collection of poets, featuring five US Poets Laureate and a bevy of bardic others, including Jane Hirshfield, Gary Snyder, Naomi Shihab Nye & Allen Ginsberg.

Whether they’re famous (the Dalai Lama, Yo-Yo Ma, Patti Smith, David Lynch, inventors, politicians, poets or astronauts) or “unsung,” you can find them here.

Hawaiian chants, Hindu myths, the Fairy Faith of Eire, witchcraft today, makeshift shrines: find deep dives into the experience of yearning & transcendence within.

Climate & health, Covid and virology, space, agriculture, psychology, nanotechnology & tech research, savor the wonders of the natural world with these reports.

The terrorist attacks on New York changed the city forever. I chronicled the shock, the anger, the confusion & the grief of 9/11 & the hard work to recover & rebuild.

As a broad category, the term "spirituality" tells us very little, although most of us know it when we see or experience it, and much of my life and career has been devoted to exploring its many beautiful and often distressing faces. Here is a sampling that includes explorations of the three Abrahamic faiths, Eastern and Indigenous religious traditions, faith, values, civic religion and fascism and various luminaries of the spiritual life.

Women & men are both human, but the similarity ends there. Come explore women’s social status & parental roles, their health, & their many desires & challenges.