Episodes
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Ronda Miller, V.2017.08.29
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Tuesday Aug 29, 2017
Ronda enjoys wandering the high plateau of northwest Kansas where the Arikaree Breaks whisper late into the sunset and scream into blizzards & thunderstorms. She is District President & State Vice President for Kansas Authors Club. As a life coach, she specializes in working with those who have lost someone to homicide. She also provides care for young children, specializing with those who have special needs. Ronda has poetry in numerous online and hard copy publications as well as at The Smithsonian Institute Archives. Miller’s books of poetry include “Going Home: Poems from My Life, “MoonStain”, and “WaterSigns” (Meadowlark Books, June 2017). “Gun Memories,”, a memoir, is coming soon. Ronda generously shares life experience & expertise through her work & life.
Find Ronda Miller at her Facebook group Poet’s Page for Ronda Miller, elsewhere online, or at one of the many Midwest poetry events where she is featured and/or she is enjoying the poetry of others.
Saturday Aug 26, 2017
Janet Jenkins-Stotts
Saturday Aug 26, 2017
Saturday Aug 26, 2017
Jan aka Janet Stotts aka Janet Jenkins-Stotts is a late blooming author of both poetry and prose. She published her first novel “The Orchid Garden” in 2015, and the e-book is available on Amazon. Jenkins-Stotts lives in Topeka, Kansas with Stan, her husband, and Romeo, their miniature pinscher. When not at the computer composing, she can usually be found at a bridge table. Or performing her “granny slam” at the first Friday open mic’s of Speak Easy Poets in Topeka.
Monday Aug 14, 2017
The Transformational Jennie Washburn V.2017.8
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Monday Aug 14, 2017
Each month, Jennie joins Talk With ME host, Marcia Epstein, for real life conversation. This Month: Saying Yes. Saying No. Being in the moment. Jennie is a Licensed Esthetician & a member of Spiritual Entrepreneurs, Pryor Transformation, Shift 2 Degrees, Lawrence Women’s Network, & One Hundred Good Women. She also enjoys being onstage, including as a two-time contestant in Transformations, a charity gala. Find Jennie at https://skincarebyjennie.net Find her women’s circle The Goddess Within at www.facebook.com/The-Goddess-Within-252751568549725/
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Ron Lucas, Poet
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Monday Aug 07, 2017
Ron is an autodidactic, former factory and warehouse laborer. He was born in Kendallville, IN, raised in the rural Appalachian Mountains of South Eastern, KY, and attended Morehead State University. He lives in Fort Wayne, IN and spends the harsh Midwestern winters in Atlanta, GA with his eldest child, an Emory University alumnus. Ron has been writing and drawing since childhood, and believes that Art Saves Lives. His poetry has appeared in various publications for decades. The Mother Goose Market from RD Armstrong’s Lummox Press www.LummoxPress.com is his first collection. His chapbook The Hole is included in the Punk Chapbook Series 2017 from Wolfgang Carstens’ Epic Rites Press www.EpicRites.org
Friday Aug 04, 2017
Jon Bidwell / Jon Lee Grafton, Writer
Friday Aug 04, 2017
Friday Aug 04, 2017
Jon Bidwell, aka science fiction author Jon Lee Grafton, is a native Kansan raised in Shawnee. Jon graduated from KU in 1994 with a BA in psychology, a degree that ultimately informed him that he did not want to be a psychologist. Jon chose photography instead, and has worked in both commercial and fine art photography since 1996. He moved to Tucson, AZ in 2013 to take a sabbatical and write a novel. This turned into a science fiction novel, which turned into three science fiction novels, that will now be part of the six-part series, The 18th Shadow. Jon moved back to Kansas City in 2016 to be closer to family, and currently lives in the Rosedale neighborhood with his girlfriend, Tiana, and their cat, Lebowski, “The Dude,” who does indeed abide.
The books: jonleegraftonbooks.com
The photography: https://www.instagram.com/jonbidwell/
The photography: www.zatista.com/store/index/jon-bidwell-photography
Facebook: facebook.com/jonleegraftonbooks
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Charles Joseph, Writer-Editor
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Born and raised in metro New York, Charles Joseph lives and writes deep in the heart of New Jersey. Peppered by a battery of life experiences—good, great, bad, and worse—Charles is the author of NO OUTLET (a novel) that he’s currently shopping to agents and publishers, a number of poetry chapbooks that have been well received, and Chameleon (Omnibus Unum 2012-2016) a collection of poems and stories. His poems, short stories, and creative non-fiction have appeared in various literary journals and online magazines in the United States and abroad, and he is the founding editor of Indigent Press, a micro press that publishes limited-run twelve poem chapbooks for poets with unique voices.
Follow Charles Joseph to www.CharlesJosephLit.com & www.facebook.com/CharlesJosephWrites
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Tracey Pacheco Medeiros
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Wednesday Aug 02, 2017
Tracey is living proof that a person who has attempted suicide can change, heal, recover and live a life very much worth living. For the past 7 years, Tracey has been working in a community health care agency in southeastern MA as a Certified Peer Specialist. The people she listens to and advocates for are people with substance abuse and mental illness. She also serves as one of the adult helpers at her local teen center. She is a trainer of several suicide prevention and bereavement support programs. And she loves motorcycle riding!
In April 2017 Tracey was awarded 3rd prize in the annual Paul G. Quinnett Lived Experience Writing Contest of the American Association of Suicidology. That month she also released her first book, or written conversation as she calls it, Embracing Imperfection: The Healing Journey of a Suicide Attempt Survivor, available on Amazon.
Follow Tracey Pacheco Medeiros on Twitter @TraceyMedeiros2