Kai Ryssdal

Once I'm awake, I'm awake, which helps when you have to run in the mornings.

I don't like running when I'm holding things in my hand, whether it's a dog leash or a baby jogger. My mechanics get all messed up.

I was in better shape when I went into boot camp than when I came out.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

In early 1993, when I was 12, I was separated from my family as the Sierra Leone civil war, which began two years earlier, came into my life.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.