Meadowood Life Stories
broadcast at noon on Saturdays

after any news on
Neighborhood News at Noon

These are original stories written by members of the Meadowood Life Story Writers' Group which meets at the Meadowood Neighborhood Center on Monday mornings.

Scroll down or jump to 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025

Broadcast Date*	Story Title Click below to listen online.	Author	Length	Source Note
2017
12/23/17	Introduction	Dick Radtke	1:51	^a
12/23/17	Conching	Joe Ringeisen	7:45	^a
10/29/18	The Wisconsin Caucus	Rick Ruecking	8:19	^a
10/30/18	O Give Me a Word	Marnie Schulenburg	5:36	^a
10/31/18	Blind Date	Jane Noffke	6:11	^a
11/1/18	Remember	Mary Mullen	7:17	^a
11/2/18	Dickie	Ron Hoppmann	3:04	^a
11/5/18	No Stroke of Luck	Barbara Bryce	7:21	^a
11/6/18	Sleepless at the Silver Moon	Jim Stephenson	9:05	^a
11/7/18	Grandma's Hands	Dick Radtke	6:28	^a
2018
11/8/18	Field Trip	Jane Noffke	5:09	^b
11/9/18	Journal Entries in the Style of David Sedaris	Mary Mullen	8:53	^b
11/12/18	All the Stupid Little Things We Do in Life	Barbara Bryce	6:04	^b
11/13/18	Last Chapter of Dickenson St. Hill	Ron Hoppmann	4:20	^b
11/14/18	The Outlaw	Rick Ruecking	8:49	^b
11/15/18	Three Little Words; H2O; Clownin' Around	Mike Shucha	8:28	^b
11/16/18	Afternoon Cruise; Baby Vampire	Joe Ringeisen	6:26	^b
11/19/18	Poem about Memoir Group	Marnie Schulenburg	1:56	^b
11/20/18	Man in a Boat	Dick Radtke	6:38	^b
2020
3/7/20	Just Another Laundry Day On the Boats	Jane Noffke	7:29	^c
3/14/20	The Snowy Winter of 1949	Ron Hoppmann	6:13	^c
3/21/20	Alternate Accounting Facts A Taxing Account	Mike Shucha	6:51	^c
3/28/20	Gifts Out of the Dark	Rick Ruecking	8:54	^c
4/4/20	Health Care in South America	Marnie Schulenburg	7:43	^c
4/11/20	An Article in the Paper or A Parakeet Dies For My Seventy-Ninth Birthday, Sept. 25, 2019 Shelter from the Storm Snowing	Mary Mullen	12:02	^c
4/18/20	Haircut	Dick Radtke	8:10	^c
2022
5/28/22	My Last Roulade With Dad	Michelle Crean Stellner	4:55	^d
6/4/22	Glove Gone Rogue	Colleen Cleary	5:41	^d
6/11/22	The Belly of the Beast	Marnie Schulenburg	4:31	^d
6/16/22	The Waters With Which I Dance	Rick Ruecking	5:49	^d
6/25/22	Tin Ear	Mary Mullen	5:33	^d
7/2/22	Weird Childhood Behavior	Jane Noffke	5:29	^d
7/9/22	Homage to Grandparents	Molly Plunkett	7:24	^d
7/16/22	Pot Roast	Barbara Park	4:19	^d
7/23/22	Enlightenment	Mike Shucha	7:50	^d
7/30/22	Things That Go Bump In the Night	Dick Radtke	5:15	^d
2023
11/25/23	My Uncle Eino	Jane Noffke	5:51	^e
12/2/23	A Book Cave to Remember	Marnie Schulenburg	4:41	^e
12/9/23	Cheap Pleasures	Mary Mullen	6:30	^e
12/16/23	Ancestry	Barbara Park	3:37	^e
12/23/23	Which Face Was the Worst?	Rick Ruecking	5:52	^e
12/30/23	Travis Brian Percival	Molly Plunkett	6:56	^e
1/6/24	American Culture	Mike Shucha	5:18	^e
1/13/24	All the Egg Things	Michelle Stellner	4:34	^e
1/20/24	The Lamp, the Genie and 100-Year-Old Julie	Barbara Bryce	5:47	^e
1/27/24	A Day at the Dentist's: a One-Act Drama	Dick Radtke	4:50	^e
2024
2/3/24	Libraries	Barbara Park	4:41	^f
2/10/24	Vacations on the Water	Barbara Park	8:45	^g
2/17/24	Bird Watching	Barbara Park	6:33	^h
2/24/24	I Come Into the World	Jane Noffke	5:17	ⁱ
3/2/24	Getting Away With It	Dick Radtke	6:08	ⁱ
3/9/24	Honored Guests	Rick Ruecking	18:13	ⁱ
3/15/24	Pass the Stick	Marnie Schulenburg	4:00	^j
2025
2/8/25	Hot Lunch	Jane Noffke	6:14	^k
2/15/25	A Recent Wednesday Morning	Rick Ruecking	5:49	^k
2/22/25	I'm So Smokin'	Marnie Schulenburg	5:10	^k
3/1/25	An Unusual Christmas Eve	Michelle Crean Stellner	5:17	^k
3/8/25	The Beard	Suzanne Gernandt	7:36	^k
3/15/25	Checking Out the Personals	Mary Mullen	6:25	^k
3/22/25	Memories of My Grade School	Barb Park	6:01	^k
3/29/25	Singing To Myself	Mike Shucha	3:56	^k
4/5/25	Old Time Radio	Dick Radtke	5:30	^k

* Original broadcast date is shown. Subsequently one story is repeated each Saturday, starting with the earliest. ^a Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Oct. 20, 2017. ^b Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Nov. 2, 2018. ^c Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Feb. 28, 2020. ^d Recorded by WIDE-LP at Meadowood Community Room May 19, 2022 ^e Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Nov. 9, 2023. [photos] ^f Private recording Feb. 3, 2024. ^g Private recording Feb. 9, 2024. ^h Private recording Feb. 17, 2024. ⁱ Recorded by WIDE-LP at Meadowood Neighborhood Center Feb. 19, 2024. ^j Private recording March 15, 2024. ^k Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Feb. 7, 2025.

Earlier Years

Broadcast Date	Author's name Click below to listen online.	Length	Source Note
2013
3/9/13	Introduction - Dick Radtke	2:06	^a
3/9/13	Rick Ruecking	5:26	^a
3/16/13	Jane Noffke	6:15	^a
3/30/13	Mike Shucha	6:17	^a
4/6/13	Michelle & Katie Crean	5:26	^a
4/13/13	April Hoffman	7:14	^a
4/20/13	Barb Huppler	6:28	^a
4/27/13	Joe Ringeisen	5:47	^a
5/4/13	Mary Mullen	6:59	^a
5/11/13	Ron Hoppmann	7:27	^a
5/18/13	Colleen Cleary	5:54	^a
5/25/13	Judy Lazarus	6:33	^a
2014
3/15/14, 3/22/14	Introduction - Dick Radtke	2:13	^b
3/15/14, 3/22/14	Ron Hoppmann	3:33	^b
4/5/14	Michelle Crean Stellner	9:05	^b
4/12/14	Joe Ringeisen	8:44	^b
5/3/14	Marnie Schulenburg	6:13	^b
5/17/14	Rick Ruecking	15:41	^b
5/24/14	Judy Lazarus	8:46	^b
5/31/14	Barbara Bryce	5:34	^b
6/7/14	Mike Shucha	8:42	^b
6/14/14	Mary Mullen	8:07	^b
6/21/14	Dick Radtke	6:33	^b
2015
7/18/15, 7/25/15	Introduction - Dick Radtke	1:58	^c
7/18/15, 7/25/15	Mike Shucha	5:06	^c
10/24/15	Jane Noffke	6:22	^c
10/31/15	Marnie Schulenburg	6:39	^c
11/7/15	Rick Ruecking	4:55	^c
11/14/15	Mary Mullen	8:28	^c
11/21/15	Ron Hoppmann	6:42	^c
12/5/15	Joe Ringeisen	7:48	^c
12/12/15	Barbara Bryce	4:25	^c
1/16/16	Dick Radtke	7:43	^c

^a Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Feb. 22, 2013. ^b Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on March 7, 2014. ^c Recorded by WIDE-LP at Sequoya Library on Feb. 20, 2015.

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Meadowood Life Stories broadcast at noon on Saturdays

Meadowood Life Stories
broadcast at noon on Saturdays