by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Family, Religion
Reflecting on her path to professional storytelling, Sally Perkins tells of preparing to tell a flannel graph story at church, before she knew how to read, at the age of five! She has been telling stories in public ever...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Education, Travel
After graduating from Northwestern with a teaching degree and working in England for a while Martha Karatz moved to Paris. There she landed a luxurious job as a private teacher for a wealthy family in the shadow of the Eiffel Tower. But how long could this...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Education, Family, Women
Nicole Wilson talks about how her Aunt Ruth, a nurse, got her started on a lifelong career in health...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Family, Marriage, Parenting, Values
Retired Nurse Lea Jean Kellison, in part of a longer family wedding story, talks about her son Lee who proved himself to be self-reliant and creative as a middle...
by podbean | Mar 19, 2025 | Careers, Rural Life, Values
Michael Obrien talks about training to go to India with the Peace Corps in 1973, how growing up in a large family on a Wisconsin dairy farm helped prepare him for that work and how stories and language affect our world...