Resilient Helen Gardiner-Parks
When I asked my friend Helen Gardiner-Parks to sit down and tell me her story, she put me off. Her gut reaction was that she didn’t have a story. I get that a lot. It’s [...]
Julie – Transformed and Healthy After Slave, Hooker, and Drug Abuser
Julie learned that I worked in Nashville as a reporter for the ABC station, WKRN, and she asked me if I knew her father. How could I not? He has an absolutely wild story. He [...]
Vanessa Faura – Immigration and Why We Don’t Watch The News
Vanessa and I do not talk politics. We talk. We occasionally grab lunch. We stay in touch. We catch up. But we do not talk politics. When I ask her to appear on my podcast, [...]
Karen – Permanently Damaged By Family Murder
Karen felt the shock waves of the gunshots in her legs. She wasn’t hit. But she was that close. And the sound was that loud. She was just a girl, her small legs churning as [...]
From Leah to Tallulah
Leah was a very close friend of one of my kids back in high school. She got a full ride to Davidson, not an easy feat, but it speaks to her brilliance. As a birthday [...]
My Mother Is Dying And I Can’t Hug Her
I didn’t meet my mother until I was 45 years old. She gave me up for adoption the day I was born. She and I have been in reunion for more than 15 years. We've [...]
Sarrah Rose – Sex Coach
Sarrah Rose’s teenaged son was hanging out in front of the home west of Phoenix when I drove into the gated community. I was there to talk to his mom, the sex coach. Don’t make [...]
Susan Anderson – Answer Scholarships
We met up at the Starbucks over by the liquor store in Cotswold. The first time I met Susan Anderson I gave her $1,000. A year later I gave her another thousand. It was a [...]
NPR Here & Now with Robin Young Interviews Stuart Watson
Copy Courtesy of wbur - NPR Here and Now with Robin Young What does it take to get a man to listen — really listen — to women? Well, in Stuart Watson's case, it took [...]
Janet Nordine – A Healer For The Ages
I notice they didn’t call it “EX-Hoookers for Jesus.” OK OK, I’m succumbing to a little bit of clickbait in my headline. Janet was a volunteer - NOT a hooker - in the Las Vegas [...]