Look &/or listen to my guest, fellow photo manager Ellen Massaro shares the story of a young girl coming home from the hospital after a two month post-surgery stay to celebrate her 6th birthday! As is customary in her home country of the Netherlands, girls get charms to celebrate each birthday & special occasion growing … Read more

Look &/or listen as my guest the famous Doyenne of Death, certified thanatologist, Gail Rubin shares with us her frozen in time stories of this “broken” round brass clock she inherited from one of her aunts apartments in Philadelphia. I am reminded of the origin of this YouTube/podcast show (mentioned in the intro) & my … Read more

Look &/or listen as my guest CGO (Chief Gratitude Officer) Noah G Press McIntyre shares his father’s & his own legacy through the story of a turquoise stone. You see Noah’s father had been on his healing journey ever since Noah was a child. In the 1970’s he became deeply connected with a community of … Read more

Look &/or listen as my friend & colleague Caroline Guntur shares the story of her 18 year old self through a photo she keeps…. a Thing that matters. You see Caroline was born & raised in southern Sweden. Though she had traveled often during her teenage years, at 18yo she decided to immigrate to the … Read more

Look &/or listen as my guest, author Susan Maycock shares the story of finding her sage bowl or it finding her. My guest lived in Santa Fe, NM for a decade. During her time there she studied many healing traditions and while apprenticing to become a shaman she was instructed to find HER sage bowl … Read more

Did you miss the Jubilee! show in Las Vegas? Sadly, this highly acclaimed show is now a thing of the past. Fortunately, my guest today, Athena Patacsil, former “dancing nude” then principal dancer, gives us an inside look as we preserve a bit of bygone history. Athena shares a unique program comp that features her … Read more

Look &/or listen as my friend & photo manager colleague shares the story of her art studio that is the Thing that brings her joy, magic & meaning. I met Sharon during the 2020 first & all virtual conference of The Photo Managers conference. Just three weeks before the planned in-person conference in Atlanta our … Read more

Look &/or listen as my guest shares a piece of her & her daughters pandemic history through a piece of flow art they created together. As word of COVID 19 spread across the USA in early 2020, everyone was called on to rethink, re-do & rearrange the year that they had originally planned to have. … Read more

Look & listen as my guest, gay historian Andrew Lear, shares the unique, yet universal story of the cleaning out our loved ones home’s after they die. He had taken on much of the responsibility of caring for his aging Mom for MANY years, but when his Mom finally died, he was teaching at Pomona … Read more

Look & listen as my guest, memoirist & friend Sam Nace, shares the stories that this candle box could tell. Handmade of wood & glass with a painted inlaid “loon” with Mallard duck colors and a door that never shut. But it has been with her since she was a teen & she keeps it … Read more