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A Conversation with Becca Rowan

I’ve known Becca online for over a decade, and worked with her on All Things Girl, but this is the first time we’ve ever actually spoken to each other.

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Music

Music for this episode was provided by Mevio’s Music Alley, a great resource for podsafe music. Visit them at music.mevio.com.
Opening: “Soap in a Bathtub” by Stoney
Closing Music: “You Can Use My Bathtub” by Little Thom

Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Becca Rowan
Life in General
Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.27 – Theories of Everything: Dog Hair

27 August 2015 by Melissa

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Theories of Everything: Dog Hair

It’s taking over the planet…one pair of black pants at a time.

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Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

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Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.24 – A Conversation with Jancis & Tierra

24 August 2015 by Melissa

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A Conversation with Thomas Jancis & Tierra Bonser

He’s British; she’s from Colorado, and they’re both nearly done with being grad students in theatre, talking to me from her kitchen in London.
Accompaniment provided by the rail line just outside.

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Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

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Thomas Jancis on Twitter
Broken Bird Theatre
Broken Bird on Facebook
Bark Theatre
Bark Theatre on Twitter
Dog Days of Podcasting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 53:09 — 73.0MB)

DDOP-1508.23: The Hottest Blood of All

23 August 2015 by Melissa

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The Hottest Blood of All

In March, 2014, my husband and I joined my parents on a whale watching expedition. I wrote about it for All Things Girl, when I got home, and meant to post it to this podcast then. A year and a half later, I’m finally doing so.

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I also know that something deep inside me has been profoundly affected by this experience. Whales, when you’re close to them, when you look them in the eye, radiate this ages-old preternatural wisdom that you can’t quite grasp, except by the edges. The calf and I locked gazes, and it felt, for those precious seconds, like I was in the center of the universe and made of starlight and whalesong.

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Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.
Special thanks to Clay Robeson for recording bits of D.H. Laurence’s poem, “Whales Weep Not!”

Links

Clay Robeson
Eduardo’s Tours
Dog Days of Podcasting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 11:07 — 15.3MB)

DDOP-1508.22 – Theories of Everything: Coffee, Tea, or Me?

22 August 2015 by Melissa

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Theories of Everything: Coffee, Tea, or Me?

Coffee is my higher power, but tea is life. Or at least, that’s my theory.

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Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

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The 100 Day Project
Dog Days of Podcasting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 10:19 — 14.2MB)

DDOP-1508.21: A Conversation With Chuck Tomasi

21 August 2015 by Melissa

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A Conversation with Chuck Tomasi

He’s one of my favorite podcasters, and a genuinely nice guy. He’ll make you melt when he talks about a particularly meaningful song, and we insult the French.

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Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

Links

Chuck Tomasi
Dog Days of Podcasting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 32:40 — 44.9MB)

DDOP-1508.20: Throwback Thursday: Blood Sisters

20 August 2015 by Melissa

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Throwback Thursday: Bloodsisters

A reading of a piece of creative non-fiction, from 2005 (I think): “Blood Sisters”

Excerpt

In truth, I don’t remember my mother pricking our thumbs (because, she says, we were too afraid to do it ourselves), or the act of us jamming our bleeding digits togther, letting our blood comingle, but I remember that we had heard the story of our own mothers taking a blood oath, and we insisted that we needed to do so as well. I’m told we both cried but I don’t think it was from physical pain, as much as the unconscious realization that we wouldn’t always be together.

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Production

Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

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Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.19: Tastes Like Nostalgia, Smells Like Rice Pudding

19 August 2015 by Melissa

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Tastes Like Nostalgia, Smells Like Rice Pudding

I talk about my great-aunt Molly (Carmella Natale) who died earlier this year at the age of 105, kitchen improv, and aglio e olio.

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Holiday Food
The Flavor Bible
Dog Days of Podcasting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 13:42 — 12.5MB)

DDOP-1508.18 – A Conversation with Debra Smouse

18 August 2015 by Melissa

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A Conversation with Debra Smouse

Debra Smouse: Writer, life coach, detangler, and one of my first friends in Texas, Debra and I talk about writing, and how everything comes back to STORY. What’s your story?

(This interview is rambly and unedited. May contain adult language. You’ve been warned.)

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Debra Smouse
Twitter
Facebook
Dog Days of Podcasting

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DDOP-1508.17: A Conversation with Susan Fogel

17 August 2015 by Melissa

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A Conversation with Susan Fogel

Susan Fogel: Writer, real estate guru, sewist, and my mother, we chat about life in Mexico, espresso bars with no decaf, and I even let her tell one baby story.

(This interview is rambly and unedited. Probably contains adult language. You’ve been warned.)

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Recorded and Produced using BossJock and Audacity.

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Mexico Musings
Susan Sews Daily
Facebook
Dog Days of Podcasting

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 19:21 — 26.6MB)

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The applications are always due at midnight, which is when the house is finally quiet and the only one awake to witness your professional ambitions is the dog, who has seen you cry in three different lighting scenarios and still believes you are the best thing in the world.

Aquatopia Amphigory of Lost Creatures: Featherfox and Glasshart

Today’s species both know how to make an impression. The Featherfox does it with a flourish, while the Glasshart simply waits for the sun to go down.

Aquatopia Amphigory of Lost Creatures: Driftneck and Eavenspike

This pair makes the same argument for stubbornness from two opposite directions. One needs no water at all. The other needed almost none to begin with. Judge for yourselves which of them made the wiser bargain.

New Cover Reveal: UNBREAKABLE TEXAS WOMEN by Joanne Kukanza Easley

I’m so excited to be sharing the new covers for this book series. Take a look, consider buying one or all, and be sure to scroll down to enter the giveaway.

Book Review: The New Year’s Man by Michael Scott Clifton

It’s not easy to combine a compelling legal drama with a rom-com and not have it feel like all the worst stereotypes of a Hallmark movie, but Michael Scott Clifton does it with style and a little bit of actual wand-waving in The New Year’s Man.

Book Review: Lift and Let Die by Helen Golden

There’s something bittersweet about discovering a series just as it’s coming to an end. Lift and Let Die is the sixteenth and final installment in Helen Golden’s A Right Royal Cozy Investigation series, and while I had no trouble following the mystery as a newcomer, I couldn’t help feeling that I’d arrived rather late to a very entertaining party.