Yesterday I took a break and went to the kitchen to make a smoothie. I flipped on the radio, more out of habit than intention. My husband says we may have “radio wars” in our house, he not being a big fan of NPR. Here is our slight philosophical difference: My feeling is that I am grounded enough in the faith to “take” whatever they throw at me, while my husband’s view is (to paraphrase ineloquently) “Why listen to crap?”
I tuned in to our local NPR affiliate, WHYY in Philadelphia, and the program that was airing at the moment was in the middle of a discussion about a book titled Fifty Shades of Grey, the first of a trilogy. The host of Radio Times, Marty Moss-Coane, American as apple pie, paused to remind the listening audience that this was “an adult conversation.”
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