Jay Allison

When we asked Danielle what near impossible task she's facing these days, she said, I recently joined an orchestra.

It's like jumping in the deep end of the pool with your cello and hoping you can keep your head above those thousands of notes swirling around.

She wrote an article about it, which you can find at themoth.org, along with photos of Danielle in her roles as a cellist, a doctor, and an editor-in-chief.

In a moment, a woman contemplates the difficulty of eating mangoes and a man faces off with a refrigerator when the Moth Radio Hour continues.

The Moth Radio Hour is produced by Atlantic Public Media in Woods Hole, Massachusetts.

This is the Moth Radio Hour.

I'm Jay Allison.

In this show, stories of struggling with obstacles with mixed results.

Our next story is from Wendy Irwin.

She told this at a Grand Slam at Queen Elizabeth Hall in London.

Here's Wendy.

Thank you.

Wendy Irwin lives in East London and has an ongoing love affair with homemade butter and feminist theory.

Wendy spends far too much time, she says, making preparations for the impending zombie apocalypse.

Story update, Wendy is happy to report that she has since discovered that there isn't a mango she doesn't like and she remains cancer-free and grateful.

Our final story comes from Brian Kett, who told this at a Chicago Story Slam, where we partner with public radio station WBEZ.

Live from the Moth, here's Brian.

That was Brian Kett.

Brian tells us that after this experience, whenever he's moved, he's hired professionals.

Brian is a Los Angeles-based screenwriter who has pilot projects in development here and in Australia, which means he gets time zone conversions wrong a lot.