I was a small-town girl.
Aside from the ridiculous green beret and homely green jumper, signing me up for Girl Scouts was the best decision Mom made for her fifth-grade daughter. I already knew how to build a campfire, and selling cookies wasn't the highlight of my year -- it was the field trip to the radio station that thrilled my little eleven-year-old heart.
There it was, five thousand watts of crystal-clear power...it was a daytime-only radio station, the voice of our town. One look into that studio and I was hooked. I begged them to let me take home the unused news copy from the AP wire. I hung it up on my wall like a rock-star poster. I got a tape recorder and practiced doing newscasts, writing exciting stories of neighborhood gossip. I practiced my commercials, imitating TV ads for Miss Clairol.
In the seventh grade, I entered a speech contest and won three of the four categories. The judges were the owners of that radio station. Within a week of winning the speech contest I had my first on-air job: "Delilah, on the Warpath," school news and sports, taped weekly.
By the time I was in high school I had worked into a full-time part-time position at the radio station. I wrote afternoon newscasts, wrote and produced commercials. I took the empty soda pop bottles back for the refund. Six days a week I was at the station. Six days a week I was happy!
It's been over 25 years, and fourteen stations since Mrs. Davis's Girl Scout troop walked through the doors of that first radio station. Today, my show isn't on a five-thousand watt daytime AM station, but the thrill of the microphone hasn't disappeared. Radio is still my first love.
Some of my other favorites include:
- Sports: Watching my son, Isaiah, play soccer
- Food: YES!!
- Color: Yellow!
- Season: Summer in Seattle, Autumn in New England
- Activity: Painting (art, not walls -- although I do murals!)
- Passions: Gardening, camping
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charles521 - thats cool and I cant get through on phone to you
JorgeSandoval - hi delilah
ihave been listening,your station since 1997, i am from latin roots, you are a fountain of inspiration,compassion,thank you for the gift you treasure and share with your audience.god bless.
RhondaCherry - I can not get through. I have tried 1-888-633-5452 or 1-800-622-1069. what is the right number to get through to you?
shannon qasem - listened for years and when im sad u always make me feel better thank you :)
Emotional_Casualty - Delilah - I am a loyal listener of yours since 1998. Way before I became a United States Marine. You are the medication to my PTSD because you take me back to ***** before them and help me surpress them. I don't know anybody that I am able to talk to so listening to your wisdom helps me keep it at bay. All I can say is thanks from this Lonely Marine.
Emotional_Casualty - Delilah - I am a loyal listener of yours since 1998. Way before I became a United States Marine. You are the medication to my PTSD because you take me back to ***** before them and help me surpress them. I don't know anybody that I am able to talk to so listening to your wisdom helps me keep it at bay. All I can say is thanks from this Lonely Marine.
AshleyParker3 - Delilah, my 3 yr old daughter has just come home tonight from the critical care unit at the Arlington hospital. After going through multiple tests and having multiple blood draws and various finger sticks, and chest X-rays, they concluded she was sick with the flu, strep throat, dehydration from not eating and drinking, and a kidney infection all at once. The first couple hours in the emergency room were pretty rough. Halfway through everything, the nurses surprised my daughter with a teddy bear after her X-ray. Then after all her blood work and her IV they gave her another teddy bear. That teddy bear they ******* up its arm to look like my daughters with the IV in it. I looked at the tags and they said Warm 106.9. Those teddy bears gave my my daughter a sense of ease. I want to say thank you with all my heart to all of you at the station and also the staff at the hospital for making my daughter feel better!
young d lee - ***** my name is young d lee and i need your help please if you can . first thing first my girl friend /wife we have been together for 4years now we met on a site over the phone called flirtomatic she was the very first woman i talked to that day was 2010 june well everything i wanted in a real relationship i seen in my sweetheart marcel russell well at first she sound to good to be true everything i wanted in a relationship she was thee one for me we both agreed to signoff from that siteshe told me she has alot of guy friends so made me wonder if she was on thier so i happen to jump on their to check didnt see her so i was very happy she not a lier. well i forgot to logout of the site i had no attention whats so ever on getting back on their cause marcel and i clicked i never thought i can love anoughter agian shes full blood native american cheyanne she is a last princes the only princes at that time i dint knew what was native american was she was seperated with her ex husband with 4 kids and its just teribble what she had to go through in her child hood life and with her ex husband ..omg im here telling you everything here my apology , it took a whole year for us to fainaly meet i was working at the time all of my co-workers knew about me falling in love with a woman who was older then i me at the moment im homeless my car broke down and jobless been living in my car for a few month now im sorry its a very long story what me and my ***** had gone through we never went on dates off the bat 4-9-11 around 2am i arived wa marysville 4-7-11 i was in california los angeles south central i have a acura rsx and my whole life i never thought i would find love out of state . as soon as i got there i got lost finding her house lol i went back and she was walking down her street the min i seen her i jumped out of my car i ran to her and i picked her up and held her so close to my heart like i was dreaming i held her for so long we were both haven to be by each others arms with me i have her name tattoo cross my heart she is an amazsing woman i tell her everyday i love her. both my parents passed away and im the only son so it was myself and marcel russell we have been through so many countless obsticals NO BOY-FRIEND GIRL-FRIEND would ever go through she stand by my side to the fullest and i have also we have been homeless together and got on our feet she will always and forever be my true love i am so happy i came up here its now 4years her grown kids would only goto her when she has money the funny thing is thier not even minei helped with what ever i can . also i didnt care about the money i was giving away it was the princibles sorry i cant spell .from the day we met i have not left her side she means the world to me she makes me ,me i can be silly goofy shy dorky clinging loving caring passenote honest happy everything we did from day one we would always stand by each other even on hardest ***** to greatest ***** i just wanna tell my ***** i apologize for not putting a roof over our head and not having a job and im sorry i messed up in the begainging marcel russell its been 4days now