Donkey Number 2 joined her when I got a phone call from a woman who described herself as a "Jewish donkey spiritualist, " a term I hadn't heard before and don't expect to hear again.

NPR: Excerpt: 'Dog Days'

On a recent vacation, I heard a story about a young woman who got her law degree and got a job.

FORBES: Don't Want Your Adult Children Back Home? Here's An Alternative.

Last weekend at a wedding in Baltimore I got into a conversation about vacation-reading, and the young woman I was chatting with said that she always brings Dickens when she takes a trip.

FORBES: Vacation-Reading: Novellas vs. Doorstops

If you've got a certain amount of physical fitness, a good sense of humour and are determined, I'm confident any woman would enjoy this job.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Wales | 'If a gran can do it, anyone can'

Unidentified Woman: (As Katherine) Baby, I got a lump in my breast.

NPR: Breast Cancer Message at Heart of N.C. Play

"I said, 'I've got to go and see this magnificent rock, '" said a woman, recently admiring the rock.

CNN: Spiritual destinations

You know, my grandmother was a Lutheran from Minnesota and a great woman, but the worst Christmas present gift I ever got--the strangest one--was she gave me two stuffed anatomically correct dolls, male and female.

NPR: The Worst Gift Ever

One day, I met a woman who had lived next door to us when I was married, and we got talking.

BBC: NEWS | UK | Scotland | 'His anger killed my dog'

Thanks to his caring attitude and unrelenting tenacity (I think he badgered Interpol until they got sick of him) she was a free (though barely alive) woman in less than a year.

BBC: Campaigning journalist Paul Foot has died aged 66.

The over-played I Try got everyone singing, and was given a reggae-feel with a bit of Bob Marley's No Woman No Cry mixed in.

BBC: Iced T in the Park