EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today holds a master’s degree in art history and taught college courses throughout her career. She’s also worked as an art gallery director, a lecturer for The Norton Simon Museum of Art, and recently as a Road Scholar lecturer. She has led numerous art tours in Europe and, at one point, … Read More
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Educator Honored by Texas Legislature with Jane Little Botkin
My guest today is an award-winning author who served as a public school teacher for thirty years before turning to historical investigation and writing. In 2008 the Texas state legislature honored her career in education by formal resolution. A Western Writers of America Spur-Award-winner twice, she also won the Caroline Bancroft History Prize from the … Read More
Newspaper Biz to Writing Fiction with Robb Grindstaff
My guest today had careers as a journalist, newspaper editor, publisher, and media executive, but he has written fiction most of his life. The newspaper biz has taken him and his family from Arizona, to small towns in North Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin, from seven years in Washington, D.C., to five years in Asia. Born … Read More
Teaching Kobe Bryant and Other Stories with Louise Pierce
My guest today attended what is now the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and received a BFA in painting and drawing. She worked in advertising for a few years, then went back to college to receive a teaching certification. While teaching at Lower Merion High School in Ardmore, PA (known for Kobe Bryant and … Read More
Love of the Irish and Romance with Cheryl Lafferty Eckl
My guest today has played many roles since she began her career as a singer-actress in musical theatre. Award-winning author, mystical poet, professional development trainer, life coach, inspirational speaker, and retreat facilitator. These days, her favorite role is seanchaí. That’s Irish for storyteller. If you ask, she’ll tell you that it’s her love of Ireland—its … Read More
Driving to Mongolia with Jackie Lambert
My guest today is an award-winning travel writer, adventure traveler, and blogger who loves history and curious facts. B.C. (Before Canines) she hurtled, slid, submerged, and threw herself off bits of every continent except Antarctica. With husband Mark, A.D. (After Dogs), she became an Adventure Caravanner. She has published six light-hearted memoirs about her travels … Read More
Paulette Stout
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Rhyming Stories with Sheryl Bass
My guest today holds a master’s degree in Social Work and has studied child development. She uses these insights to inform her picture book writing. She holds a master’s degree in Journalism and is currently working in public relations. Her goal in creating Be-Kind Publishing is to produce lighthearted rhyming stories with gentle themes of … Read More
Botanical Director Buries Characters in Gardens with Marty Eberhardt
My guest today delights in using the right side of her brain to write fiction and poetry, after using excessive left brain work as a botanical garden director and nonprofit professional. Her award-winning Death in a Desert Garden is the first novel in the Bea Rivers series; Bones in the Back Forty launching in January … Read More
Wandering Adventurer with Gretchen Staebler
My guest today is a wandering adventurer who left decades of grown-up life on the East Coast at age sixty to return to the mountains, beaches, and rain of her soul’s home in the Pacific Northwest. She blogs about her adventures from coffee shops, her father’s desk, national park lodges, her tent—wherever she feels cozy. … Read More