From PRX, this is the Moth Radio Hour. I'm Meg Bulls and in this hour we'll hear four

stories recorded live on stage in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and St. Paul, Minnesota.

The backgrounds of the storytellers are wildly different. We'll hear from a medical analyst

and aspiring writer who pays the bills, waiting tables, a woman from a small town in Alaska

and a world-renowned rock star. The one thing they all have in common is that they've shared

their stories on the Moth stage. We'll begin with a story from Pam Flowers that she told

that the historic Fitzgerald Theatre in St. Paul. The evening was produced in partnership

with Minnesota Public Radio. Here's Pam live at the Moth. Thank you.

When I was a little girl, we had this radio in our house. This thing was as big as a piece of

furniture. I used to sit there on the floor with my ear pressed up against the speaker and I

would listen to my favorite radio program. I was about this guy named Sergeant Preston and his

dog King. They used to have a dog team and they'd go running all over the Arctic, riding wrongs.

I used to fantasize about how one day I was going to grow up and I was going to do those very things.

But of course life kind of got in the way a little bit. Believe it or not, 40 years later,

there I was standing on the outskirts of Barrow, Alaska alone with a night dog team

and we were going to dogs led across Arctic America to the east side of Canada.

Well, I just didn't get up one day and say, well, I guess I'm going to dogs led across Arctic America.

I had actually spent about 10 years in Alaska and I had learned how to dogs led how to take care of my

dogs and gone on a lot of expeditions to gain experience. So when we left Barrow, Alaska in February

14th, 1993, I believe that my eight dogs and I were ready to go. Now the way it works in dogs

ledding is you have a team of dogs. In this case, I had eight and you put a harness on them and on

the end of the harness there's a line and the line goes back to the front of this lead and the

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