off the clock

Video games: not just a waste of time

Ryan Famuliner — Fri, 10 Aug 2012 16:44:31 +0000

This week: A volunteer in Columbia is using video games as an opportunity to teach kids about math, science and technology. Plus, the fourth installment of My Farm Roots, a series from Harvest Public Media in which we hear Americans’ stories and memories of rural life.

Finding my religion: Author Pamay Bassey's year of worship

Kristin Torres — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 21:54:27 +0000

When author Pamay Bassey suffered the loss of two family members and the end of a relationship she embarked on a unique journey – she visited a different place of worship, every week, for a year, in search of guidance.

That experience became a book called My 52 Weeks of Worship, Lessons from a Global, Spiritual, Interfaith Journey.

Kristin Torres, reporting for KBIA and the Columbia Faith and Values desk, spoke to Bassey, before her appearance in St. Louis this weekend.

My Farm Roots: Just taking notes

Donna Vestal — Fri, 03 Aug 2012 18:34:36 +0000

Sometimes farm roots don’t blossom into a farm life.

But those memories can still have a huge influence, perhaps even determining a career choice.

That’s the case for Tom Karst, a soft-spoken, well-respected journalist who’s been covering the fruit and vegetable industry for more than 25 years .

My Farm Roots: Making a home, out on the ranch

Peggy Lowe — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:32:55 +0000

It’s not every day that a trip to the drug store can change your destiny.

For 20-year-old Nan Arnold, it was a day in 1956 in Ashland, a small, dusty dot on the open range of western Kansas near the Oklahoma border.

Nan had landed her first job as a music teacher at the Ashland school just a year before. She lived with the store’s owner because her parents thought she was too young to live alone.

Blue Highways Revisited: Photographer Ed Ailor captures the places and people off the beaten track

Rehman Tungekar — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:57:47 +0000

The call of the open road has long beckoned Americans … and in 1978, William Least Heat-Moon answered the call and embarked on a drive around the country, taking the roads less travelled. Starting in Columbia, he followed a circular route that totaled nearly 14,000 miles. The result was Blue Highways, a New York Times Bestselling book.

My Farm Roots: When you hail from farm country, roots run deep

Jeremy Bernfeld — Fri, 20 Jul 2012 20:39:25 +0000

This is the first installment of My Farm Roots, Harvest Public Media’s new series chronicling Americans’ connection to the land.

Kate Edwards hasn’t always been a farmer. No, she came back to the farm after college, grad school and a stint as an environmental engineer.

Now, she farms a small one-acre plot near Solon, Iowa. On her small farm, she feeds 30 families through a Community Supported Agriculture project, a CSA. Edwards was drawn back to farming, she says, because of family memories.

Staying or going: 'My Life, My Town' in Glasgow

Carah Hart and Lizz Cardwell — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 17:55:45 +0000

A high school senior, Madelyne cheerleads, serves as the Glasgow FFA President, and participates in Band and Choir. On the weekends, she works at the local bank. She cannot wait to leave the small-town life and the farm.

Out in a small town: 'My Life, My Town' goes to Macon

Janet Saidi — Fri, 06 Jul 2012 22:33:50 +0000

On this week's edition of "Off the Clock," we hear a third portrait from the “My Life, My Town” series that documents the stories of teens in rural Missouri. Today we visit Trinity Rainey in Macon.

Off the Clock: Faith and Fiestas in Mexico, MO.

Janet Saidi — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 22:50:32 +0000

On this edition of Off the Clock, we visit Monica Martinez, a teen whose Latin American family is putting down roots in Mexico, Missouri.

Croquet in Mexico, gardening in Columbia and 'My Life, My Town'

Janet Saidi — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 21:40:55 +0000

On this week’s show: It’s summer. We’ll look at stories about playing croquet in Mexico (Missouri, that is), gardening in Columbia (Missouri, also) and life as a teen in a small town.