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Mostly Peaceful LatinasUS Navy knew about the Titan's implosion days ago, Tate charged with rape, Hunter's sweet dealThe US Navy knew about the Titanic's tourist submersible implosion days ago when it heard unusual sound patterns around the time all communication ended with the sub. New IRS whistleblower reveals shocking texts messages Hunter Biden sent his CCP business associate. Andrew Tate is charged with r*pe and human trafficking, and Vice news latest hit piece against Mom's for Liberty features an unhinged Miami woman that we have personally dealt with.Today's Sponsors:Sentry H2o: Get 5% off your under-the-sink, water filtration system with code "MPL10" | https://www.sentryh2o.com L...2023-06-261h 39Mostly Peaceful LatinasTate's accusers lied and got caught/ Biden abandons East Ohio/Epstein files releasedIn this week's episode, we discuss the East Ohio train derailment and chemical spill. Is the USA under attack? Wiretaps show that the "victims" accusing the Tate brothers of human trafficking lied and it was all a set up. New Epstein files were released and they show a JP Morgan Chase executive exchanging some creepy messages with Epstein. DeSantis 2024 shadow campaign continues to push their propaganda and a whistleblower leaked an influencer campaign meant to paint Nick Fuentes as a "Fed". Your water is contaminated with fluoride, chlorine, arsenic, and other toxins that is deeply affecting your h...2023-02-211h 27Mostly Peaceful LatinasTrump is Blamed For The Vaccine | Andrew Tate is Banned | Miami School Board Flips ConservativeIn this week's episode, we discuss Andrew Tate being banned from all social media platforms and why he is a threat to the WOKE establishment. Is he the new Alex Jones? We also give our honest take about him. Barstool's president gets into an online dispute with conservative comedian Alex Stein over abortion. The primaries were on Tuesday and Governor's DeSantis endorsed candidates won almost every single school board race across the state of Florida. Miami-Dade flipped two seats in the school board and it is now the largest conservative school board in the country. Democrats and their media...2022-08-2749 min
The Lila Life ShowAligned Marketing with Kaili MeyerWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Making your content about your clientsGiving value to your audienceConnecting...2020-06-2945 minThe Lila Life ShowDefining Consciousness with Ganga DeviWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Being clear on your visionComing aware of your giftsStepping into a place of...2020-06-221h 12The Lila Life ShowPractices For Times of Stress with Vanessa VargasWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Information overloadHow to use your energyHealing our unconscious Connect with Vanessa:...2020-06-1545 minThe Lila Life ShowThe Doula Within with Andrea WeltyWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Letting loose after child birthFear around giving birthSoul workYou can find me...2020-06-0845 min
Learning From Life with Linda Sage and GuestsLearning from Life with Linda Sage & Guests #5 - Ed TateEd’s success in business has spanned more than two decades. For 14 years, he was a successful national account executive selling over $500 million in products and services to corporations and entrepreneurs throughout the United States.As a speaker, Ed Tate is respected and sought after throughout the world. In the well-known Toastmasters world, Ed won the coveted Toastmasters International 2000 World Championship of Public Speaking, finishing ahead of 354,000 members from 141 countries. To date, he has spoken professionally in all 50 American States and 24 countries across five continents.2020-06-0525 minThe Lila Life ShowHealth Matters with Brianna RaichWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Slow fashionMeditatingAlternative medicineYou can find me on...Instagram -...2020-06-0145 minThe Lila Life ShowPersonal Power with Meegan ScirettoWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Where to place your energyAdjusting to nowSlowing down and listening to your bodyYou can...2020-05-2550 minThe Lila Life ShowMake Room with Inessa FreyaWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Empowering spacesTechnology as the third partner in relationshipsTraining your body to...2020-05-1855 minThe Lila Life ShowWholeness Is Spiritual & Human with Tracy LittWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Spiritual bypassingEvolution of 3D, 4D and 5DHealing woundsYou can find me on...Instagram...2020-05-1144 minThe Lila Life ShowMindset Matters with Kara MichelleWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Fully being ourselvesLetting go of energetic baggageDoing things that feel good to youYou...2020-05-0448 minThe Lila Life ShowWhat Plants Can Teach Us With Rachael CohenWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Our desire to connect with other speciesFeeling grounded in natureWorking with plants and...2020-04-271h 01The Lila Life ShowWaking Up with Cece HeartWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Whole foods and the impact it has on our healthMindfully eatingConnecting communities...2020-04-2057 minThe Lila Life ShowMindfully Navigating Uncertain Times With Matt CardoneWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Tate Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:How to settle the mind and bodyResponding accurately to the reality you're...2020-04-1342 minThe Lila Life ShowConscious Business with Lindsay Scherr BurgessWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Tate Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:How to thrive in businessEnergy bottlenecksFlexibility and work-life balance You can...2020-04-061h 04The Lila Life ShowDivine Living with Jenna DiMaggioWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Tate Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:Aligning closely to your soulLeaving room for the unexpectedMorning practice You can...2020-03-3044 minThe Lila Life ShowBeing You with Alyson Charles Rock Star ShamanWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Tate Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:AwakeningsEmbodying your whole powerDoing the best you can to keep your heart...2020-03-2354 minThe Lila Life ShowCollective Intelligence & Beyond with Nick Mohnackydeep dive into the importance of collective intelligence and the future with Nicholas Mohnacky and host Linda Tate2019-12-2356 min
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Talking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the markets.Market Wizard Linda Raschke 2Linda’s first seven-digit profit day came from a short position on the SPs. Hear about her huge trend days, market losses and life in between.Mindpower – Louise BedfordTake life’s bigger option and the thing that is going to lead you to better results.Where can you play big? Market Wizard Linda RaschkeLinda’s first seven-digit profit day came from a short position on the SPs. She will never forget driving down her two-lane country road to the karate studio. Her eyesight was razor-sharp and she has never felt that intensity again. (5.48 mins)Also, hear about the times when trades wen...2019-12-0337 minThe Lila Life ShowPresence, Race & Mental Health with Jordan SmithWelcome to the latest update to The Lila Life Show. Your host, Linda Andrews brings you the latest conversations in consciousness.In this episode we are discussing:plant based and pasteurizationgoals vs presencemagic in the present with stillnessshowing...2019-12-0240 minTalking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the markets.Market Wizard Linda RaschkeLinda Raschke is one of the finest share traders in the world and one of the nicest people to interview. After closing her own hedge fund, she still trades the same systems she has used since 1992. I dare you to not fall in love with her. You'll also hear from Louise Bedford in her Mindpower segment.Mindpower - Louise BedfordHow do you determine your future once you have reached your trading goals? Market Wizard Linda RaschkeI dare you to not fall in love with Linda in this interview.After her spectacular start in the markets for all the wrong reasons (6.00 min...2019-11-2630 minThe Lila Life ShowFitness, Movement or Health with Rock TateFitness, health and movement, which one is which and how to prioritize.2019-11-1947 minThe Lila Life ShowThe Healthiest Diet with Dr. Jake and Dr. Nick HydeLinda regroups with the Wellness Brothers about life and what diet is best for you.2019-11-121h 14The Lila Life ShowItty Bitty Shitty Committee with Audrey SuttonLinda Tate and Audrey Mills guide you through real talk with your itty bitty shitty committee.2019-10-2141 minThe Lila Life ShowThe Sun is Always Shining with your host, Linda TateGet to know the Lila Life Show and your host Linda Tate as she takes you through the upcoming season!2019-10-0710 min
StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups174: Chad Everett: "Medical Center"This week on StoryWeb: Chad Everett’s TV show, Medical Center. If only I could start with the theme song to Medical Center! If I were telling you this story in person, I’d risk humming a few bars, complete with an ambulance-like scream of notes. But alas, I’m left with mere words to conjure up for you the magic that was Medical Center, an hour-long weekly hospital drama starring Chad Everett as the hip, young Dr. Joe Gannon. Chad Everett and Medical Center were literally my claims to fame when I was in colleg...2018-03-2615 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups173: Cynthia Morris: "Chasing Sylvia Beach"This week on StoryWeb: Cynthia Morris’s novel, Chasing Sylvia Beach. What do you get when you combine time travel, intriguing literary history, Paris, and romance? Why, Cynthia Morris’s novel, Chasing Sylvia Beach, of course! I know Cynthia from participating regularly in what she previously called Free Write Flings, month-long excursions that have “flingers” writing freely for fifteen minutes each day in response to various “prompts.” I’ve dipped into Cynthia’s Free Write Flings twice a year for the last several years – every October and February – to generate ideas for StoryWeb. Go behind the scenes with us t...2018-03-1212 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups172: James H. Cone: "Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare"This week on StoryWeb: James H. Cone’s book Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. It has been more than 25 years since I read Rev. James H. Cone’s book Martin & Malcolm & America: A Dream or a Nightmare. I was teaching an English 101 course focused on the writing of the Civil Rights Movement, and I wanted to learn more about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X and to understand better the relationship between them, the intersection points, if any, between them. Of course, I’d already read Dr. King’s “I Have a Dream” spe...2018-02-2507 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups171: Malcolm X and Alex Haley: "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"This week on StoryWeb: Malcolm X and Alex Haley’s book, The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Malcolm X wrote his famed autobiography in collaboration with African American journalist Alex Haley (most famous for his epic book Roots: The Saga of an American Family). If you are one of the many Americans who believe Malcolm X espoused violence, even hate, I urge you to read this compelling book. It reveals Malcolm X as a much more nuanced thinker and leader than depicted in mainstream media. The Autobiography of Malcolm X resonates with so much other American li...2018-02-1108 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups170: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "Letter from Birmingham Jail"This week on StoryWeb: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s essay “Letter from Birmingham Jail.” In April 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was in Birmingham, Alabama, protesting racism and racial segregation in the city. He was arrested on Good Friday for demonstrating, which a circuit court judge had prohibited. While he was in solitary confinement, Dr. King wrote what is arguably the most important letter in American history. It was addressed to the white clergy of Birmingham, who had publicly criticized Dr. King for getting involved in a matter far from his home in Atlanta. Dr. King began...2018-02-0512 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups169: Susan Glaspell: "Trifles"This week on StoryWeb, Susan Glaspell’s play Trifles. Born in 1876, Susan Glaspell was a prominent novelist, short story writer, journalist, biographer, actress, and, most notably, playwright, winning the 1931 Pulitzer Prize for Drama for her play Alison’s House. She and her husband, George Cram Cook, founded the ground-breaking Provincetown Players, widely known as the first modern American theater company. In fact, it was Glaspell who discovered dramatist Eugene O’Neill as she was searching for a new playwright to feature at the theater. Though she was a widely acclaimed author during her lifetime, with pieces...2018-01-311h 05StoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups168: Elizabeth Strout: "Olive Kitteridge"This week on StoryWeb: Elizabeth Strout’s book Olive Kitteridge. Has there ever been a grimmer, more taciturn main character in a book than Elizabeth Strout’s Olive Kitteridge? We’ve all known someone like Olive, someone who looks like she’s just bitten into a lemon, someone for whom a kind of self-righteous grumpiness rules the day. What’s so unlikely is to have such a Gloomy Gus serve as the focal point of a book. And it must be said: Olive Kitteridge is not a sympathetic character. As readers, we don’t like her. Those a...2018-01-2207 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups167: Emily Dickinson: Poem 372, "After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling Comes"This week on StoryWeb: Emily Dickinson’s Poem 372, “After great pain, a formal feeling comes –” For Patricia and our students Emily Dickinson’s Poem 372 is not – technically speaking – a story. And Dickinson is not a storyteller per se. But her nearly 1,800 poems speak deeply and powerfully to the human condition. They give a still unparalleled account of what it is to be human. Poem 372 does have some elements of storytelling. Instead of “once upon a time,” we get “after this, then this.” And then Dickinson describes the numbing, the freezing, the letting go – perhaps the dying that f...2018-01-0807 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups166: James Joyce: "The Dead"This week on StoryWeb: James Joyce’s short story “The Dead.” James Joyce’s “The Dead” is widely considered to be his best short story, called by the New York Times “just about the finest short story in the English language" and by T.S. Eliot as one of the greatest short stories ever written. The storyline is simple enough: a long-married Irish couple -- Gretta and Gabriel Conroy – attend a lavish dinner party thrown by his aunts in celebration of the Feast of the Epiphany (January 6). At the party, they each have a variety of conversations...2017-12-3123 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups165: Richard Thompson: "1952 Vincent Black Lightning"This week on StoryWeb: Richard Thompson’s song “1952 Vincent Black Lightning.” For Jim, in honor of his birthday My husband, Jim, and I love this song by Richard Thompson and its signature line, “red hair and black leather, my favorite color scheme.” In fact, the first concert we saw together was Thompson playing at the Boulder Theater, and of course, I sported a black leather motorcycle jacket. When Thompson sang the song, one of his most popular, and got to this particular line, Jim called out, “Me, too!” Thank goodness, Jim is not a heckler – and he didn’t di...2017-12-2409 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups164: Robert Frost: "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"This week on StoryWeb: Robert Frost’s poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” In honor of the winter solstice Without a doubt, the most famous poem about winter is Robert Frost’s “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening.” In fact, Garrison Keillor says that this is perhaps the single most famous poem of any kind in the twentieth century. Frost himself called the poem “my best bid for remembrance.” Written nearly in the blink of an eye in June 1922 after Frost had been up all night finishing his long poem “New Hampshire,” th...2017-12-1809 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups163: Rick Nelson: "Garden Party"This week on StoryWeb: Rick Nelson’s song “Garden Party.” For Julia, in honor of her birthday In 1972, my two-year-old sister could sing all the words to this Rick Nelson hit. Why she latched on to this particular song when it came on the car radio none of us will ever know – not even Julia. She would sit in her car seat – not one of the safety-conscious car seats of today – and practically dance in her seat, legs and arms bopping to the beat. So “Garden Party” has a special place in my memories. But th...2017-12-1006 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups162: The Coen Brothers: "Fargo"This week on Story Web: the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo. I suppose I must have a dark sense of humor indeed to think of the Coen Brothers’ film Fargo as a comedy – even if I do realize that it is a dark comedy. I mean, what can you say about someone who shrieks, then laughs uproariously, at the woodchipper scene? Yes, Fargo is a weird and dark tale – from William H. Macy as Jerry Lundegaard, the pathetic car dealership manager who pays two sleazy criminals to kidnap his wife, to Steve Buscemi as the “funny-looking guy” in th...2017-12-0407 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups161: Theodore Roethke: "My Papa's Waltz"This week on StoryWeb: Theodore Roethke’s poem “My Papa’s Waltz,” A story contained in sixteen short lines of poetry – that is Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz.” This autobiographical poem tells of a little boy dancing with his drunk father as his frowning mother looks on. How to read this poem? Is the speaker a man looking back at his drunken father with affection or remembering the fear he felt at his father’s whiskey binges? Love and fear simultaneously? There is mixed, conflicted affection in the poem. The boy hangs on “like death...2017-11-2707 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups160: Lydia Maria Child: "Over the River and Through the Web"Lydia Maria Child: “Over the River and Through the Wood” In the 19th century, Lydia Maria Child’s name was nearly a household word. An outspoken abolitionist, women’s rights supporter, and crusader for Native American rights, Child was also a prolific author. A journalist and editor, she wrote novels and short stories (often using fiction to express her anti-slavery views), poems and children’s books, and domestic manuals for wives and mothers. Her most famous book – which went into 33 printings – was The Frugal Housewife, first published in 1829. Four years later, she published An Appeal in F...2017-11-1908 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups159: Lee Smith: "Dimestore"This week on StoryWeb: Lee Smith’s memoir, Dimestore: A Writer’s Life. I first fell in love with Lee Smith’s fiction nearly thirty years ago when I was a cook at Le Conte Lodge in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. On my afternoons off, I’d sit on my cabin porch, reading first Lee’s novel Oral History, later her novel Fair and Tender Ladies. She created characters with such powerful voices – women and men of Appalachia who spin yarns through story and song. Granny Younger’s voice and Ivy Rowe’s letters have stayed with me a...2017-11-1306 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups158: Jill Ker Conway: "The Road from Coorain"This week on StoryWeb: Jill Ker Conway’s memoir The Road from Coorain. The Road from Coorain traces the unlikely story of young Jill Ker’s journey from a sheep station in the western grasslands of New South Wales, Australia, to the position of president of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Journeys of such epic proportions are rare even for the increasingly ubiquitous genre of memoir. But the young Jill – hemmed in by the extreme drudgery of sheep farming, the tedium of the dry, parched landscape of the Australian outback, and later by the emotional demand...2017-11-0505 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups157: Edgar Allan Poe: "The Raven"This week on StoryWeb: Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven.” For this spooky Halloween edition of StoryWeb, I’m featuring Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven.” Everyone knows this haunting poem – but less well known is Poe’s essay “The Philosophy of Composition,” in which he explains how he quite methodically wrote the poem. Now “The Raven,” you have to understand, made a splash. Poe was a relatively unknown writer when he published the poem in January 1845 in the New York Evening Mirror and again the next month in The American Review. Almost overnight, he became a huge literary...2017-10-2915 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups156: Frida Kahlo: "The Two Fridas"This week on StoryWeb: Frida Kahlo’s painting The Two Fridas. Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is known for her stunning self-portraits. You might not think of her immediately as a painter who tells stories through her art. Indeed, you could be forgiven if you think of her husband, muralist Diego Rivera, as the more narrative painter of the two. After all, his paintings told tales of the Mexican Revolution. But Kahlo’s paintings tell a tale – the same tale – over and over again, nearly obsessively, as if Kahlo had a compulsive need to share her story.2017-10-2211 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups155: The Partridge Family: "I Think I Love You"This week on StoryWeb: The Partridge Family’s song “I Think I Love You.” Fifth grade – and the song I can’t get out of my head is “I Think I Love You.” Every girl at Griffith Elementary School – make it every girl at schools around the United States – feels the same way. How we swooned over David Cassidy, the teen idol who played a made-for-TV band’s lead singer. The fictional band was The Partridge Family, based loosely on the real-life Cowsills, a family pop band popular in the late ’60s. The TV show debuted in fall 1970...2017-10-1506 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups154: Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales"This week on StoryWeb: Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Whan that aprill with his shoures soote The droghte of march hath perced to the roote, And bathed every veyne in swich licour Of which vertu engendred is the flour. . . . Oh, how I loved learning how to recite these opening lines to “The Prologue” of Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. While I was by no means a scholar of medieval literature (modern literature being far more to my taste, as you know if you are a devo...2017-10-0807 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups153: Dolly Parton: "Coat of Many Colors"This week on StoryWeb: Dolly Parton’s song “Coat of Many Colors.” Call it maudlin or sentimental, but Dolly Parton’s song “Coat of Many Colors” is undeniably an American classic, so much so that it was adapted to a made-for-television movie in 2015 and to a sequel, “Christmas of Many Colors,” in 2016. The song is not particularly innovative artistically speaking. It doesn’t push the envelope in any way. And yet . . . it tells the story of the Parton family so honestly, vividly, and memorably – and does so in a neat, three-minute package. The song tells of...2017-10-0211 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups152: Alex Haley: "Roots"This week on StoryWeb: Alex Haley’s book Roots. In January 1977 when I was sixteen, I joined 130 million Americans to watch the television miniseries based on Alex Haley’s book Roots: The Saga of an American Family. It was broadcast eight consecutive nights, and like countless other viewers, I was glued to the TV set every night. I was there, front row, center, for every episode. The concluding episode still ranks as having the third largest audience in television history. Who can forget Kunta Kinte, his daughter Kizzy, or her son Chicken George? The story Hale...2017-09-2510 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups151: Elizabeth Bishop: "In the Waiting Room"This week on StoryWeb: Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “In the Waiting Room.” I’ve featured Elizabeth Bishop previously on StoryWeb. “The Moose” – set in Bishop’s home province of Nova Scotia – is one of my favorite poems, as it tells so powerfully the ordinary – but extraordinary – experience we all have from time to time: an encounter with wild life, with the “wild life.” Set in 1918 and written in 1976, “In the Waiting Room” – set in another of Bishop’s childhood locales, Worcester, Massachusetts – also tells a tale of an experience that is common to everyone: coming into conscious awareness of oneself...2017-09-1708 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups150: Oscar Wilde: "The Importance of Being Earnest"This week on StoryWeb: Oscar Wilde’s play The Importance of Being Earnest. Really, has there ever been a play funnier than Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest? No matter how you experience it – by reading the play, seeing it performed live, or watching one of the film adaptations – you’re sure to be splitting your sides with laughter in no time. Even if you’ve seen the play or one of the films before, you’ll laugh just as hard – maybe even harder – than you did the first time you saw it. Kno...2017-09-1007 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups149: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: "Americanah"This week on StoryWeb: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel Americanah. Nigerian Chinua Achebe was the first African writer to publish a major novel in English – a novel in the colonial master’s language. Published in 1958, Things Fall Apart tells the story of Okonkwo and his traditional Igbo village and the devastating transformation it undergoes with the arrival of British colonialists. But the novel is every bit as much about Okonkwo as a tragic hero – his story regardless of time and place – as it is about the damage wrought by Europeans. Things Fall Apart demanded that the Igbo be taken o...2017-09-0407 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups148: Langston Hughes: "Theme for English B"This week on StoryWeb: Langston Hughes’s poem “Theme for English B.” Oh, how I love this poem! It packs so much into a short space. Published on its own in 1949, it was included in Langston Hughes’s 1951 collection, Montage of a Dream Deferred. Though it gains more resonance when taken with the entire collection of Hughes’s bebop poetry, it also stands successfully on its own. In “Theme for English B,” Hughes imagines a 22-year-old black student—a transplant from North Carolina – living at the Harlem Y and going to college. He is the only “colored” stu...2017-08-2106 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups147: Langston Hughes: "Montage of a Dream Deferred"This week on StoryWeb: Langston Hughes’s book of poems Montage of a Dream Deferred. I play it cool And dig all jive That’s the reason I stay alive. My motto As I live and learn Is dig and be dug in return. So goes the poem “Motto” in Langston Hughes’s 1951 jazz collection, Montage of a Dream Deferred. The list of my favorite Langston Hughes poems would be long indeed, but no volume of his poetry makes my heart sing like...2017-08-1311 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups146: Herman Melville: "Billy Budd, Sailor"This week on StoryWeb: Herman Melville’s novella Billy Budd, Sailor. While “Bartleby, the Scrivener” and Moby-Dick get a lot of attention (and are taught frequently in high school and college classes), fans of Herman Melville’s work think a lot about a piece he was writing at the end of his life. Though Melville had been working on the novella Billy Budd, Sailor for the last five years of his life, it appears that he may not have finished it when he died in 1891. It’s surprising that Melville had been working on the novella fo...2017-08-0723 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups145: Allen Ginsberg: "A Supermarket in California"This week on StoryWeb: Allen Ginsberg’s poem “A Supermarket in California.” In so many ways – both in his poetry and in his interviews – Allen Ginsberg made clear that he owed a great debt to Walt Whitman. Indeed, Ginsberg’s most famous poem, “Howl,” stands as a nearly direct response to Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself,” published in 1855, a century before “Howl.” But perhaps nowhere does Ginsberg make their kinship clearer than in his 1955 poem “A Supermarket in California.” In what seems at first a light-hearted, whimsical poem, Ginsberg imagines walking the aisles of a grocery store with the famed...2017-07-3106 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups144: Gloria Anzaldúa: "I Had To Go Down"This week on StoryWeb: Gloria Anzaldúa’s poem “I Had To Go Down.” Gloria Anzaldúa was a groundbreaking, perhaps even groundclaiming theorist and poet. She is by far best known for her 1987 book, Borderlands/La Frontera. It is much easier to identify it as her most influential and enduring work than it is to place it into a genre. Is it theory? History? Poetry? Memoir? It is all this – and more. Anzaldúa’s work can be challenging. It is a dense text with complex concepts, and some readers find it hard to understand. A...2017-07-2412 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups143: E.M. Forster: "A Passage to India"This week on StoryWeb: E.M. Forster’s novel A Passage to India. When I was a senior in high school, my favorite English teacher, Mr. Alwood, agreed to do an independent study with me. He selected four challenging novels he thought I was up to understanding and studying. I think back to those novels now and can’t imagine how a 17-year-old could really have been equipped – intellectually or emotionally – to appreciate them. But in my way, limited by life experience though I was, I did appreciate them. One of those novels was E.M. Forst...2017-07-1709 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups142: Derek Bowman: "Tam: The Life and Death of a Dog"This week on StoryWeb: Derek Bowman’s book Tam: The Life and Death of a Dog. For Mom, in honor of her birthday Chanonry Point. The very name of this tiny peninsula in northern Scotland evokes fond memories and takes me back – almost physically, it seems – to the little cottage I shared with my mother and sister for one week in Summer 2006. I can recall the peculiar washer and dryer (which try as we might we never could get to work), Julia’s bedroom at the top of extremely narrow, very steep, almost ladder-l...2017-07-1014 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups141: Lin-Manuel Miranda: "Hamilton"This week on StoryWeb: Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton. Like many, many Americans, I am entirely and utterly swept up in the cultural phenomenon of our time – meaning I can’t get enough of Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Broadway musical Hamilton. Wow. That is really all there is to say. Introducing the cast for a performance at the White House, Michelle Obama said that Hamilton is the greatest work of art in any genre that she has ever encountered. And numerous theater directors and scholars compare Miranda to Shakespeare in his ability to bring hi...2017-07-0208 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups140: John Hiatt: "Feels Like Rain" and "Drive South"This week on StoryWeb: John Hiatt’s songs “Feels Like Rain” and “Drive South.” For Jim, in celebration of our years together Later this week, Jim and I will celebrate twelve years together, ten years married. American singer-songwriter John Hiatt was a part of our early courtship, and two of his songs became our particular favorites – “Feels Like Rain” and “Drive South.” Both appear on Hiatt’s 1988 album, Slow Turning. A true American troubadour, Hiatt has recorded more than 20 albums, beginning with Hangin’ Around the Observatory in 1974 and most recently with Terms of My Surrender in...2017-06-2507 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups139: Edith Wharton: "The House of Mirth"This week on StoryWeb: Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth. I want to close out my multi-week focus on the Gilded Age with a consideration of Edith Wharton’s novel The House of Mirth. Where Jacob Riis, Alfred Stieglitz, Stephen Crane, and Theodore Dreiser look at the grimier side of this famed period in New York City history, at the underbelly that the working class and poor, the immigrants, and the homeless faced as they made their way through daily life, Edith Wharton focuses her attention on the world she knew best: that of the priv...2017-06-1841 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups138: Theodore Dreiser: "Sister Carrie"This week on StoryWeb: Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie. In 1899, as the soon-to-be-novelist Theodore Dreiser was starting work on Sister Carrie, he was also working on two articles about America’s up-and-coming photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Impressed by Stieglitz’s realistic photography, Dreiser used similar techniques in Sister Carrie, creating “word pictures” to describe city scenes in both Chicago and New York. Relying on photographic elements in these passages, Dreiser emphasized the weather, qualities of light and darkness, and the spectacle aspect of the scenes, thus underlining the stark reality being presented. Born in 1871 in Terre Haut...2017-06-1143 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups137: Stephen Crane: "An Experiment in Misery"This week on StoryWeb: Stephen Crane’s article “An Experiment in Misery.” Many Americans know Stephen Crane as the author of the Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, which made Crane famous at the age of 23 when it was serialized in 1894. It was published as a full-length book in 1895. Some know his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, or even the harrowing short story “The Open Boat,” based on a real-life experience when Crane was en route to Cuba and spent 30 hours adrift with others in a lifeboat. Less well-known to most reade...2017-05-0138 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups136: Alfred Stieglitz: "The Terminal" and "Winter, Fifth Avenue"This week on StoryWeb: Alfred Stieglitz’s photographs The Terminal and Winter, Fifth Avenue. In the 1890s, as Alfred Stieglitz was beginning his career, photographers were fighting for artistic recognition. Photographers who wanted to go beyond “mere” journalism or documentary photography had to show their critics the value of their “mechanistic” art. Photographers like Stieglitz were trying to prove to skeptics that the camera could be used not only as a journalistic tool (as Jacob Riis used it in How the Other Half Lives) but that photographs could also have value as art. Stieglitz was unquestionably the leader of...2017-04-2311 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups135: Jacob Riis: "How the Other Half Lives"This week on StoryWeb: Jacob Riis’s book How the Other Half Lives. Photojournalism can be an extraordinarily powerful way to raise the public’s concern about extreme situations. An early pioneer in this realm was Jacob Riis, whose 1890 book, How the Other Half Lives, exposed the underbelly of life in New York City during the Gilded Age, with a particular focus on the Lower East Side. Though Riis has been occasionally criticized for asking some of his subjects to pose for the photographs, the truth of their surroundings and the veracity of the degradation they...2017-04-1744 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups134: Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins: "Here Comes Peter Cottontail"This week on StoryWeb: Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins’s song “Here Comes Peter Cottontail.” Every year as Easter approaches, I think of the perennial holiday classic, the beloved song “Here Comes Peter Cottontail.” Written in 1949 by Steve Nelson and Jack Rollins (who also wrote “Frosty, the Snowman”), the song was recorded by Gene Autry in 1950. It became an instant hit, reaching #5 on the Billboard charts. It’s a much-beloved song for my mother and me, too, for I made my singing debut in first grade performing “Here Comes Peter Cottontail.” My school – Boggstown Elementary S...2017-04-0906 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups133: Martin Sexton: "Happy"This week on StoryWeb: Martin Sexton’s song “Happy.” For Jim, celebrating twenty-four years of new life Several years ago, my friend Virginia called to invite me to a concert. Martin Sexton, one of her favorite singer-songwriters, was playing that night at the Boulder Theater, and Virginia had an extra ticket. Would I like to go? I asked Jim what he thought. I had vaguely heard of Martin Sexton, had seen his name, in fact, on the Boulder Theater marquee many times. But that’s all I knew. Jim said, “Oh, he puts on a great...2017-04-0306 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups132: Kent Haruf: "Plainsong"This week on StoryWeb: Kent Haruf’s novel Plainsong. One of the pure delights in moving to Colorado eleven years ago was discovering a whole new crop of regional writers – in this case, Western writers. If you’ve followed StoryWeb for a while, you know I love American regional literature – especially Southern and Appalachian literature (but throw in a little Sarah Orne Jewett for the Maine coast, why don’t ya?). I quickly discovered that the West is richly endowed with powerful, powerful writers. Willa Cather helped set the scene, and well-known later writers like Annie Prou...2017-03-2606 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups131: Hod Pharis: "I Heard the Bluebirds Sing"This week on StoryWeb: Hod Pharis’s song “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing.” In honor of the first day of spring I first encountered Canadian songwriter Hod Pharis’s song “I Heard the Bluebirds Sing” on Pathway to West Virginia, the first album recorded by Ginny Hawker and Kay Justice. It was 1989, and my good friend Rolf had just returned from a road trip that had taken him through West Virginia. Rolf was the quintessential lover of old-time and early country music. He and his sister had been at a rest stop, and he asked abo...2017-03-2006 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups130: Colin Higgins and Hal Ashby: "Harold and Maude"This week on StoryWeb: Colin Higgins and Hal Ashby’s film, Harold and Maude. The 1971 film Harold and Maude is a cult classic, a romantic dark comedy preserved in the Library of Congress’s National Film Registry and ranked number 45 on the American Film Institute’s list of 100 Funniest Movies of All Time. Written by Colin Higgins and directed by Hal Ashby, it deserves every bit of the love its enamored fans have showered on it over the years. It’s an unlikely love story if ever there was one. Nineteen-year-old Harold meets his future paramour...2017-03-1206 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups129: Helen Matthews Lewis: "Living Social Justice in Appalachia"This week on StoryWeb: Helen Matthews Lewis’s book Living Social Justice in Appalachia. In honor of International Women’s Day, coming up this Wednesday, I want to pay tribute to one of the great teachers of my life, Helen Matthews Lewis. Known fondly as the mother or grandmother of Appalachian studies by the many people whose personal and professional lives she has touched, Helen – as always – modestly denies this title, saying instead that other leaders gave birth to and shaped the interdisciplinary movement. But as her colleague Stephen L. Fisher points out, “there is little question that her p...2017-03-0612 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups128: James Baldwin and Raoul Peck: "I Am Not Your Negro"This week on StoryWeb: James Baldwin and Raoul Peck’s film, I Am Not Your Negro. I want to close out African American History Month with a look at a new documentary directed by Raoul Peck. I Am Not Your Negro features a range of James Baldwin’s writings as well as rare television appearances and footage of Baldwin speaking at a variety of events. Indeed, Baldwin’s writing and speaking are so central to this film that he is listed as the primary screenwriter, with Peck as compiler and editor. The words are powerful indeed...2017-02-2708 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups127: Beyonce: "Lemonade"This week on StoryWeb: Beyoncé’s album Lemonade. Beyoncé slays. That’s the only word to describe her achievement on her most recent album, Lemonade. Now I am not a big fan of hip hop or pop music or what the Grammys call urban contemporary music, but ever since Beyoncé’s performance of “Formation” at last year’s Super Bowl, I have been mightily intrigued by this powerhouse of a performer. For Beyoncé’s songwriting and performance go well beyond hip-hop or pop music or urban contemporary or R&B. Indeed, it seems that any...2017-02-2009 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups126: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.: "Colored People"This week on StoryWeb: Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s memoir Colored People. Dr. Henry Louis Gates, Jr., is well known in the United States as a leading professor of African American Studies, director of Harvard’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research, and host of several PBS series, including Finding Your Roots. Many Americans also know him as the man who was arrested for breaking into his own home and then being invited to have a beer with President Obama. What is less well known about Gates is that he hails from Piedmont, West...2017-02-1308 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups125: Solomon Northup: "Twelve Years a Slave"This week on StoryWeb: Solomon Northup’s book Twelve Years a Slave. Though slave narratives were widely read in the antebellum United States (and in fact were one of the most popular genres at that time), they are mostly read now primarily in American history and literature classes. My mother-in-law, Eileen Rebman, taught a variety of slave narratives for many years in her high school AP American history classes, and I regularly taught Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself as well as Harriet Jacobs’s Incidents in the Life of a Sl...2017-02-0632 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups124: "The Mary Tyler Moore Show"This week on StoryWeb: The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Who could turn the world on with her smile? Mary Tyler Moore, of course! Those of us who loved Mary Tyler Moore and her pioneering work as an actress and comedian were not surprised to hear of her passing last week – but we were sad nevertheless. Moore, who was 80 when she died, had fought Type 1 diabetes and its complications since she was 33. Moore’s television career started with her role as “Happy Hotpoint,” a dancing elf on Hotpoint appliance commercials that ran during t...2017-01-2909 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups123: Elton John and Bernie Taupin: "Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy"This week on StoryWeb: Elton John and Bernie Taupin’s album Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. When I was fifteen years old, my favorite album was Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy. Even then, I knew it was something special, a truly unique album. Recently, I listened to the album again – for the first time in over thirty years. Wow! It still holds together. Elton John himself – among numerous other musicians, producers, and critics – believes Captain Fantastic is his best album. The ninth formal studio release album for Elton John, Capt...2017-01-2307 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups122: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream"This week on StoryWeb: Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech “I Have a Dream.” “I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right temporarily defeated is stronger than evil triumphant.” So said Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on December 10, 1964, as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. At 35 years old, he was the youngest person ever to have been awarded the prize. Sixteen months earlier on August 28, 1963, Dr. King had helped lead what is perhaps still the greatest people’s march on Washington – an iconic “mou...2017-01-1611 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups121: Jean Ritchie: "Singing Family of the Cumberlands"This week on StoryWeb: Jean Ritchie’s book Singing Family of the Cumberlands. If you’re looking for bona fide old-time mountain music – the real deal, before bluegrass, before the Carter Family even – then look no further than Jean Ritchie. Perhaps more than any other performer of her generation, Jean Ritchie gives us the traditional old-time stories and songs and the story of the lived experience of growing up in a family in the Cumberland Mountains of Eastern Kentucky. Many Americans know Jean Ritchie from her singing and songwriting career. In addition to songs she wrote (s...2017-01-0813 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups120: Neil Young: "Comes a Time"This week on StoryWeb: Neil Young’s song “Comes a Time.” StoryWeb celebrates stories of all kinds: novels and short stories and films and memoirs, of course, but also poems and songs and visual art that tell stories. Neil Young’s song “Comes a Time” doesn’t tell a story – not by a long shot. There is no main character, no narrator, no plot, no action. But sometimes a work of art lives with us in such a way that it takes on the role of story. It becomes a part of our personal story...2017-01-0207 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups119: James Holman: "The Narrative of a Journey"This week on StoryWeb: James Holman’s book The Narrative of a Journey. For Jim, in honor of his birthday In 2007, my husband, Jim, and I heard about Jason Roberts’s book, A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History’s Greatest Traveler. It sounded fascinating: a biography of a British naval officer who completely lost his sight at age 25 and then proceeded to travel around the world – and in the most exotic and, often, dangerous places. Born in 1786, James Holman rose to the rank of lieutenant in the British Royal Na...2016-12-2612 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups118: David Sedaris: "The Santaland Diaries"This week on StoryWeb: David Sedaris’s essay “The Santaland Diaries.” For Julia and Jim, my favorite David Sedaris fans My sister, Julia, is one of David Sedaris’s biggest fans. She and my husband, Jim, love giggling together over favorite passages from Sedaris’s droll radio essays. While Sedaris is an accomplished writer, it is in his oral delivery of his essays – his readings – that he really makes his mark. Sure, you can recite a favorite line or try to imitate him doing “Away in a Manager” as Billie Holiday, but really, why try? Only Davi...2016-12-1906 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups117: Albert and David Maysles: "Grey Gardens"This week on StoryWeb: Albert and David Maysles’s film Grey Gardens Watching the 1975 documentary film Grey Gardens is like slowing down to watch an accident in the next lane over. You know you shouldn’t, but you simply can’t help yourself. And if you’re really a rubbernecker like me (and apparently like tens of thousands of other Americans), you line up to watch the 2009 HBO Jessica Lange/Drew Barrymore biopic, which provides the backstory to the original film. Clearly, the 1975 documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles were on to something. What is it about...2016-12-1207 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups116: Leonard Cohen: "Hallelujah"This week on StoryWeb: Leonard Cohen’s song “Hallelujah.” Last month during the same week that saw the U.S. presidential election, Canadian musician Leonard Cohen died at age 82. He was one of the great songwriters – a songwriter’s songwriter. The composer of such songs as “Suzanne,” Cohen was perhaps best known for his 1984 song “Hallelujah.” Apparently, it took Cohen years to write “Hallelujah,” to the point where he was once so frustrated that he banged his head on the floor as he sat to write the song. Even after he recorded the song on the album Various Posi...2016-12-0506 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups115: Maya Angelou: "Still I Rise"This week on StoryWeb: Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise.” As the year draws to a close and the dark deepens, I reflect on the difficult election season and look for glimmers of light. Maya Angelou’s poem “Still I Rise” – published in 1978 as part of Angelou’s poetry collection, And Still I Rise – speaks to me as a powerful antidote to despair. Although she specifically speaks from and to the experience of being African American, acknowledging the “huts of history’s shame,” her poem also reaches out to anyone who has struggled, who has despaired of finding...2016-11-2804 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups114: Joseph Brackett, Jr.: "Simple Gifts"This week on StoryWeb: Joseph Brackett, Jr.’s song “Simple Gifts.” This week as we turn our thoughts to Thanksgiving, I am reminded of the beautiful Shaker song “Simple Gifts.” I have long loved the spare melody and the powerful lyrics. Many think of “Simple Gifts” as an anonymous Shaker hymn – which is only partly correct. It is a Shaker song, but it was written as a dance song (note the repetition of the word “turn,” which would have been a way to call a figure in a dance). And the man who wrote both the melody and the w...2016-11-2105 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups113: Rainer Maria Rilke: "Sunset"This week on StoryWeb: Rainer Maria Rilke’s poem “Sunset.” In memory of Dr. Kathryn Hobbs On Saturday, I was privileged to attend the memorial service for Dr. Kathryn Hobbs, my beloved doctor and dear friend. A vital, vibrant, phenomenally alive woman, Kathryn was just six months younger than me. We first met ten years ago this month, when I had just moved to Colorado and needed a new doctor. I had done extensive research, and when I came across Kathryn’s professional online profile, I knew in some deep and intuitive way that I had foun...2016-11-1409 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups112: E.E. Cummings: "The Enormous Room"This week on StoryWeb: E.E. Cummings’s book The Enormous Room. While in graduate school at the University of Wisconsin, I was fortunate enough to take a class on literature of the 1920s. Taught by Professor Walter Rideout, the seminar featured both classics from the decade – such as Ernest Hemingway’s In Our Time and F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby – as well as lesser-known works such as Gertrude Stein’s Tender Buttons and Elizabeth Madox Roberts’s The Time of Man. I was captivated by the many literary works we studied throughout the course of...2016-11-0722 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups111: Ann McGovern: "The Velvet Ribbon"This week on StoryWeb: Ann McGovern’s spooky story “The Velvet Ribbon.” Like many pre-teens and teens, I played the same records over and over and over again. My poor mother! When I was ten, she had to listen repeatedly to The Beatles’ 1970 collection, The Beatles Again, – and in later years, she was subjected to endless repeats of The Best of Bread, Eric Carmen’s self-titled album, Elton John’s Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt County, and perhaps the album that sticks in her mind most notably, Albert Hammond’s It Never Rains in Southern California. But one re...2016-10-3106 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups110: T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"This week on StoryWeb: T.S. Eliot’s poem “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.” T.S. Eliot isn’t for everyone. His poetry is notoriously difficult to read – dense, packed, allusive, and elusive. I wrote my master’s thesis on his later-in-life series of poems, Four Quartets, and at the time, I reveled in the density, the opaqueness of his poetry. I can remember reading – sweating over, agonizing over – The Waste Land the first time I encountered it in graduate school. What to make of this puzzling – but absolutely central and defining – poem of the modernist movement?2016-10-2408 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups109: Arthur Miller: "The Crucible"This week on StoryWeb: Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible. Last week, I featured Kathleen Kent’s fascinating novel The Heretic’s Daughter, which tells the story of Martha Carrier, Kent’s ninth great-grandmother, who was hanged as a witch in 1692 as part of the Salem Witch Trials. Fourteen women and six men were executed as suspected witches, one by being “pressed” to death with large stones, the rest by hanging. Many theories have been offered over the centuries for this heinous treatment of Salemites by their neighbors. What originally began as hysterical accusations by young girls quickly swep...2016-10-1709 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups108: Kathleen Kent: "The Heretic's Daughter"This week on StoryWeb: Kathleen Kent’s novel The Heretic’s Daughter. Those who know me or know my work understand that I am compelled by family histories. I especially love it when contemporary writers delve into their family pasts to unearth secret stories and bring those hidden stories to life for modern readers. Think Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior – one of my key inspirations when I wrote Power in the Blood: A Family Narrative. I am always on the lookout for similar projects. Imagine my delight, then, when I met author Kathleen Kent. We...2016-10-1008 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups107: Allen Ginsberg: "Howl"This week on StoryWeb: Allen Ginsberg’s poem “Howl.” On October 7, 1955, Allen Ginsberg made the literary world sit up and listen to his “Howl.” It premiered at the Six Gallery in San Francisco, with Ginsberg doing a reading of the long poem. After Ginsberg’s “howl” (his answer to Walt Whitman’s “barbaric yawp”), the literary world would never be the same again. Michael McClure, another poet who read that evening, said, “Ginsberg read on to the end of the poem, which left us standing in wonder, or cheering and wondering, but knowing at the deepest level that a bar...2016-10-0307 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups106: Richard Attenborough: "Shadowlands"This week on StoryWeb: Richard Attenborough’s film Shadowlands. “The pain then is part of the happiness now. That’s the deal.” So says Joy Lewis to her husband, Jack, as they are enjoying their honeymoon in Herefordshire, England’s Golden Valley. Joy’s terminal cancer is in a brief remission, and Joy and Jack are reveling in their love and in their precious time together. Jack is better known to the world as C.S. Lewis, the author of a series of books on Christian theology as well as the famous Chronicles of Narnia children’s b...2016-09-2607 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups105: Michael Cunningham: "The Hours"This week on StoryWeb: Michael Cunningham’s novel The Hours. In her fascinating book Virginia Woolf Icon, Brenda Silver examines all the ways Woolf has become a potent international symbol. You can buy a Barnes and Noble canvas bag featuring Woolf’s face, and the British National Portrait Gallery sells thousands of Woolf postcards a month. And of course, the great American playwright Edward Albee famously asked Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? American novelist Michael Cunningham is clearly not afraid of Virginia Woolf. He says of Woolf’s novel Mrs. Dalloway: I suspect...2016-09-1910 minStoryWeb: Storytime for Grownups079: Kate Chopin: "The Awakening"This week on StoryWeb: Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening.
Kate Chopin initially made her literary name as a writer of “local color fiction.” Writers around the United States were focusing careful attention on the customs, dialects, folkways, and geography of distinct regions in the U.S. For example, Sarah Orne Jewett focused on life in coastal Maine, perhaps most famously in The Country of the Pointed Firs, and her literary heir, Willa Cather, took the local color impulse further in her fully realized novels, such as My Antonia, O Pioneers!, and The Song of the Lar...2016-03-2116 minTalking Trading - Expert trading tactics so you can excel in the markets.Market Wizard – Linda RaschkeThis episode of Talking Trading features a very special in depth interview with Market Wizard herself Linda Raschke. Effervescent, vivacious and open about her trading Linda shares the key programs which make her money in the markets and made her a legend. She talks about her trading routine, why her horse is called Ritchie Rich, and why she had always had a love hate relationship with the market. Honest, up front and gorgeously bubbly hear why Linda is a Market Wizard and how she really did trade during labour. Linda RaschkeLinda finishes every trading day riding her horse RITCHIE RICH.I...2015-11-1039 min