Dear Radio Diary:

I didn't want to jinx it, so I haven't written about this until now.

But seeing as we've just been signed on for another year, here's the scoop:

For the past 8 months, I've been producing and co-hosting an hour-long "radio party" that airs on radio...

Denver-based, nationally adored Americana singer Mollie O'Brien's big musical "Yes" started with a big New York City "No" in that city's gritty 1970s.

She'd moved from Wheeling, West Virginia to become a Broadway star. She had The Voice: a beautifully clear, wittily expressive instrument that mainlined messages of...

In 2000, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, director of New York City's Hayden Planetarium (for us scientist-loving types) and People Magazine's Sexiest Astrophysicist Alive (for us celebrity-loving types), downsized Pluto from:

a) a super-cute planet that shared a name with a super-cute Disney character

Strengthen your dreams and you'll sleep better. Sounds kinda cart-before-the-horsey, right? But frolicking in a field of dream-unicorns kicks Ambien's ass for increasing the quality - and side-effects - of sleep.

Here's why:

The first thing you need to know about dreams, is that we have them every night....

Some of us work for a better living. Elizabeth Fournier works for a better post-deathing.

As a one-woman funeral service in the rural town of Boring, Oregon, Fourner is eschewing big profits to prophet old-school burial practices that are kinder to humans and the Earth....

Zach Lieberman found his career as a humanity-boosting computer artist by getting lost.

As a fine arts graduate in the '90s, "I had to get a job," he said, in a phone call from his office at the Parsons School of Design in Manhattan. "At that time everyone I...

Note to readers: A few weeks ago, I got an email inviting me to part of a Green Books Campaign sponsored by Eco-Libris, a for-profit enterprise that promotes books printed on non-virgin paper and funds the planting of trees in Africa and Central America.

Interviewing a journalist is like operating on a surgeon, I worried, as I picked up the phone.

I was calling New York Times columnist and author Gail Collins, who had been spending the day at the Ann Richards School for Young Women Leaders in Austin, TX.

My...

In our last post on Work, we featured three experts about the changing nature of Work, from the Pop Tech conference in Camden, Maine.

One of those speakers, John Fetterman, the mayor of Braddock, PA, arrived in Maine with news that embodies America's health-care debate.

Braddock,...

This series on work started with profiles of individuals who've identified their passions and turned them into amazing careers.

The next few posts will feature a look at Work, American-Style, from the PopTech conference in Camden, Maine.

PopTech began -- as its name implies -- as a meeting...

I've been writing this series about Work for HuffPost Living for several months now. It felt like the right time to review what I'd learned. So I invited Me, the reporter, to interview Me, the indie writer/voice-over/creative freelancer, about what we've learned about Work thus far:

Q:...

Good news! You've found a job helping the world in a crucial, even life-saving way.

Bad news: You're working so hard for so little that you're about to burn out.

"Is there a way for me to help others without killing myself?" you ask.

Absolutely, says Andrew Zolli....

If you're down on your luck and ya ain't got a buck? Glenn Llopis wants to kick your ass - in a good way.

Llopis is a California-based entrepreneur, the kind of guy who could - and did - make it to the top of the corporate...

Darrell Scott is a hit-songwriter, an A-List musician and acclaimed independent singer-songwriter who's mixing a new album to be released later this year.

The last thing he needed was a new job.

Or did he?

In a phone chat from Nashville, Darrell Scott described his...

Taking a snapshot of a movement sounds nonsensical, if not impossible. But if you're in Northern Colorado when Dan Shaner hosts one of his Sunday brunches for change, that's what you'll get -- along with some very fine local bluegrass and an equally tasty homemade meal.

Like a lot...

James P. Othmer is an ex full-time-ad guy turned full-time author.

Or maybe he's an ad guy turned author between full-time jobs?

No one can say. Least of all, James Othmer.

But it sort of doesn't matter. Because however the future plays out, Othmer has found his...

In previous posts, we've met people who have created their jobs by pursuing professional passion.

In today's post, we'll meet Jen Consalvo, a woman who left her job to pursue her dream career.

Ditching a steady paycheck takes guts in an unsure economy. But Jen is, by nature,...

According to the United Nations Population Fund, there are more than a 1.5 billion people worldwide between the ages of 10 and 25.

Look ten years into the future and that's 1.5 billion+ young people in an ever-more global job market.

Jennifer Kushell is an expert in...

There's nothing like asking someone about their work to distract you from the fact that they're sticking a dozen needles into your torso.

And so, on a recent visit to my local naturopath, I popped the question:

How did you discover your passion for "alternative" medicine?

Like many young...

Julie Child never said this, but hopefully someone French sorta did:

The more we try to keep our work world from changing these days, the more it changes. (Take a deep drag on your mental Gauloise here.)

If you've been laid off, are looking for work or worrying about the...