EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is an award-winning author and retired psychotherapist. When she and her family moved to Bangkok, Thailand for three years in 2005, she met her spiritual teacher–an encounter that led her to write her debut memoir Finding Venerable Mother: A Daughter’s Spiritual Quest to Thailand. It was a #1 best seller … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the author of the debut memoir “Disassembly Required: A Memoir of Midlife Resurrection,” a story about beginning again after the American Dream implodes. The book was excerpted by AARP Magazine, nominated for Georgia Author of the Year, and a June 2022 pick by the International Pulpwood Queens. A former … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is an award-winning author who writes romance action-adventure, thrillers, and romantic comedies. She published her debut novel at age 66. She is a former wildland firefighter and loves exploring the pitfalls of relationships in the action-packed, perilous world of wildfire. Her stories include strong women firefighters and hunky smokejumpers fighting … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a subversive feminist who masquerades as a little old lady with blue hair. At twenty-two, in the mid-seventies, she packed up her three-year-old daughter and moved from Minneapolis to the Women Writers Center in New York state. For a year, she studied writing and literary criticism with second-wave feminists. … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today was hired straight out of graduate school as Executive Director of the Association of Community Arts Councils of Kansas and was lucky enough to work with rural arts councils throughout the state. She saw first-hand how groups of (mostly) women encouraged culture on the Plains. From there, she went on … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY After earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees, my guest spent 29 years in classrooms, first teaching 7th grade Language Arts & Social Studies, followed by 22 years of high school English and Psychology. Upon retirement, she joined a writing workshop, where a good instructor taught her that the slash and burn of editing don’t … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a retired medical doctor and author of Making the Rounds; Defying Norms in Love and Medicine which garnered a starred review in Kirkus Reviews and was among Kirkus Reviews Best 100 Indie Books of 2022. She writes articles for many publications and magazines, and, NPR recently interviewed her. She … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a renowned international lawyer and author. He has represented countries and businesses in nearly 1,000 international disputes around the world, including cases involving Sudan, Ethiopia and Yemen. He taught at universities in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, including Harvard Law School, National University of Singapore and St. Gallen … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is a senior-level library administrator with over 25 years of experience in education and considerable international experience. He is the Dean of Troy University Libraries. Before entering the library field, he spent 8 years as a history teacher in Georgia and one year teaching English as a second language in … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today left a promising career as an ecologist catching protected reptiles, amphibians, and kissing frogs, to move to remote northwest Spain with her blue-eyed prince (now blue-eyed husband). In between writing, she uses her time growing her own food, continuing to renovate and look after two stone farmhouses, and discovering more … Read More
