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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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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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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In 2004, my husband and I moved from California to Texas.
In 2005, I turned the story of our trip into a creative writing piece called “Crossing the Mojave” and won a contest with it.
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Fuzzy has gone the entire trip guzzling root beer and orange soda, but I am being good and sticking to water as much as possible, partly because it’s cheaper but mostly because it isn’t quite so vile when it is no longer throat-numbingly cold. I open my mouth to urge him to drink water, but he has a closed expression, so instead I mutter something about how the word “Mojave” changed to “Mohave” when we crossed the state line. He has no response.
I keep seeing signs for the Grand Canyon, which I have not seen since a school field trip when I was a child living in Colorado, but my husband reminds me that the dogs cannot eat until we stop for the night, and that as much as I seem to want to pretend this is just a road trip, it is not a true vacation. Instead, it’s a one-way trek halfway across the United States, to an apartment we have never seen that will be filled with furniture we do not own. I don’t tell him that I have to keep pretending we’re just exploring so I don’t get overwhelmed at the journey we’re making—not the physical trip, though that is grueling enough—but the uprooting of our lives.
Intellectually we both understand that this decision is the right one, that we were caught in a never-ending loop of bills and emergencies, that my company was failing, and that the cost of living in the Bay Area was increasing. Our ultimate destination, Dallas, Texas, isn’t the first choice for either of us, but it is the best we could agree on, and sometimes that has to be enough. Nevertheless, the knowledge that there is nothing familiar waiting for us at the end of the road is more than a little daunting.
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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
Four dog-related entries from “100 Days of Notecards” and a plug for National Clear the Shelters Day.
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Great dialogue, fantastic ensemble, and chyron to beat all chyron – that’s why I watch iZombie, and why you should, too.
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Clay Robeson: bon vivante, sassmaster, and purveyor of infinite awesome is also a creative catalyst. We talk about many things, including terminal ennui, the best meal he’s ever had, and goats on the shore of San Francisco Bay.
(This interview is rambly and unedited. Probably contains adult language. You’ve been warned.)
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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
Just a vignette that I jokingly refer to as “cello porn,” even though it’s really not.
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In which the Bathtub Mermaid talks guitar shopping after decades of being a cellist, and continues sharing Theories of Everything. (With special thanks to Chuck Tomasi. (Link below.))
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In which the Bathtub Mermaid talks about tree roots that pretend to be snakes.
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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
