Linda and Nancy welcome Jennie Cole-Mossman, child and family counselor, to the front porch to discuss Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens. We discuss the importance of attachment and bonding to young children and relate that to the story of Kya, abandoned by her family in the North Carolina marsh. We explore the role of community members, like Jumpin’ and Mabel, in supporting healing from trauma.
Linda and Nancy discuss Delia Owen’s New York Times bestselling book, Where the Crawdads Sing. This book tells the riveting story of Kya, a young girl abandoned by her family in the North Carolina swamp, her journey to young womanhood, and her entanglement in the murder of the town’s golden boy.
In This Blessed Earth by Ted Genoways, we read about Dr. Don Wilhite, international expert on drought. In this episode Don joins us on the front porch to tell us about the critical challenge of drought and its impact on food production. Dr. Wilhite was the founding director of the National Drought Mitigation Center and has worked around the world to help producers, regions, and countries implement sound water planning practices.
Linda and Nancy discuss This Blessed Earth by investigative journalist Ted Genoways. This nonfiction book follows a year in the life of a Nebraska farm family and examines the social, political, emotional, economic, and environmental challenges facing the people who grow the food WE eat! The book was named one of the Smithsonian’s Ten Best Books of 2017. Linda and Nancy discuss their family’s farming background and recognize the complex decisions agricultural producers face.
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Author Lisa Lawmaster Hess joins us on the front porch to discuss her Christian fiction book, Casting the First Stone. The book is the first in a trilogy about three strong female characters navigating a child custody battle. Old wounds and mistakes threaten to destroy each character’s dreams for her life. Lisa describes how she developed the characters in the book and how her own journey and experiences inform her writing.
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