My Podcast Blog

Tuesday May 18's podcast will feature an interview with Mike Wendling, editor of BBC Trending, the BBC's weekly program that tracks social media. Mike brings an American perspective to the most British of Britain's great institutions, the BBC, still…

New Brunswick is one of Canada's 10 provinces , known as the Maritimes, along with Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. It borders the state of Maine to the West and South. The provincial capital is Fredericton and Moncton is another large city in …

Jaime Dimon, Chairman of JP Morgan, pictured, has told staff to come back to the office in June. He said he's done with Zoom meetings and wants the real thing. He said that young professionals want to hustle and they need to be in the office to do t…

Wednesday’s podcast is an interview with author Libby Copeland, an award winning journalist. In her latest book she  takes us on a journey filled with twists and turns through America’s latest past time - online DNA testing.  R…

Today's blogpost is a preview of my interview with Professor Mark Rank, co-author of  " Poorly Understood: What America gets wrong about poverty."   Mark Rank is a social scientist and the Herbert S. Hadley Professor of Social Welfare at W…

In today's podcast I interviewed a couple who are relocating their family to North Carolina from San Francisco. It has been a tough decision for these two transplants to make. While family considerations are a major part of their concerns, so m…

A currency is a system of money used in a particular country and regulated by its' government. The economy and the management of its currency is one of the main political objectives of political parties as they seek to be elected. Control of its cur…

In today's podcast, Martin Kuz, the West Coast correspondent for the Christian Science Monitor, shared his impressions of Minneapolis, the George Floyd killing and calls for police reform in the city of Minneapolis. As a native Minnesotan and 25 yea…

Frida Kahlo was born in 1907 in Coyacan, outside Mexico City. Throughout her life, she endured much physical pain due to a bout of polio and later on, an accident on a bus. She married renowned artist and muralist Diego Rivera in 1929.  But in …

Christo’s 24.5 mile Running Fence art installation across Sonoma County, dramatically dives into the Pacific Ocean near Bodega Bay. Bodega Bay was made famous by Alfred Hitchcock in the 1963 thriller/horror movie, The Birds. And Christo outdi…