EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is an environmental communicator who advocates for the natural world through work and play. Her debut novel, The Best Part of Us, has received six national and international literature awards and more than 225 top reader rankings for its ability to immerse readers in a breathtaking natural world and tell … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today spent fifteen years in an indie rock band, traveling the highways of America in a series of Ford vans. When he wasn’t searching for fame and a safe place to eat before a gig, he started writing short stories and novels. His band, Uncle Green, went into semi-retirement after four … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today was born in Japan and traveled around the world and east coast of the United States as a Navy brat. She mostly grew up in Virginia Beach, Virginia, then traveled through Kentucky, Massachusetts, Georgia, and Florida before retiring from the world of physical therapy and turning to a second career … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is an award-winning mezzo-soprano soloist and recording artist. She premiered works by more than forty composers and made nine critically acclaimed recordings. She is the author of two books about music, Exploring Twentieth-Century Vocal Music and The Performing Life: A Singer’s Guide to Survival. In addition, she established a long … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today is the editor of Portugal Letter magazine, and a feature writer for the Algarve’s Tomorrow magazine. She is the author of the Algarve Dream Series of travel memoirs and the author/curator of the Travel Stories Series of anthologies. Her latest book, Kat the Dog: The remarkable tale of a rescued … Read More
EPISODE SUMMARY My guest today has had a career as a health educator and is currently professor emeritus of health and human sexuality at Mount San Antonio College in Southern California. But with retirement she has fulfilled her desire to return to her early passion for creative writing. Her first book, Our Song: A Memoir … Read More
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
