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Lisa is an author and photographer who lives near beautiful Lake Michigan.
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Most Embarrassing Moments on the Radio (opens the original)
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We all make mistakes. The difference is that most people don’t make them live, broadcast to tens of thousands over a hundred-mile radius.I worked as an announcer in the ’80s and ’90s at stations around Wisconsin, and will admit, I made plenty of blunders on the air. Among my greatest hits: informing my morning partner that a sandwich shop “has the breast bread”; announcing a Peaches and Herb song with “Herb” pronounced like a spice; giving a trivia answer meant for a listener calling for a prize
RADIO BOOKSHELF: WLT, A Radio Romance (opens the original)
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My first thought was OMG, this book came out in 1991 and at that time, I was living the zaniness of AM radio and kooky announcers and “live” Saturday night polka dances! Soon, though, I found myself trying to figure out what it was about… it didn’t seem to match the book jacket description: a boy named Francis With’s and his rise in the early days of radio.The first third of the book featured a parade of wacky local talent who tried out and/or won a spot on WLT, a station started by brothers Ray
A Photography Walk with Dad (opens the original)
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Many moments in life feel like the beginning of something. A trip to see waterfalls in the U.P. will definitely be the first of many. There will be another reunion dinner with old friends, another visit to the little bookstore discovered on vacation, another journey along the same road later when the leaves have turned, a phone call with grandma. And soon. Right?But sometimes, “soon” is never.On a fresh spring day 2007 when the trees were luminous with tender leaves, my Dad and I went for a phot
Feeling Washed Up? (opens the original)
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Before I moved from Madison to Sheboygan twenty years ago, my husband caught me duct-taping the broken slats on a brown plastic laundry basket.Maybe you’ve had this conversation in your own relationship:“Throw that thing out,” he said.“But it still works!”<sour
RADIO BOOKSHELF: Heavy Rotation (opens the original)
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