As a special treat for the cross quarter day between Summer Solstice and Fall Equinox, I’ve decided to offer up “The Positive Fantastic Soundtrack” episode. My life has been so full lately. I’m in the middle of moving with my son to a new residence so that he can be close to school, friends, and…
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The summer solstice special edition of “The Positive Fantastic” podcast is an episode titled “Remembering Daniel” & is in honor of my partner, Daniel Treadwell Frey, who passed away at home on May 2nd, 2023. For those who knew him, I hope that this podcast will help you process your grief as we each find…
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I had a wonderful time driving through very jungly, overgrown, lush roads on the Big Island of Hawaii to get to Hope Bee to interview her about her beekeeping practice for our podcast episode, “Melissa Musings.” When I arrived at her home, she was topless, tending to her hives, while a friend of hers stood…
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For Earth day I’m releasing a special edition podcast with my friend Julie Rothman of Flower Power Teas and herbals. For the last 30 years she has been creating wonderful & nourishing tea blends from organic herbs. I’ve been getting to enjoy her yummy teas for many, many years. In addition to selling her bulk…
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Tanya Stiller, runs the non-profit “Healing Tide” as a collective to support the oceans and particularly the intertidal zones of our Northern California coastline. I asked her to join me on the podcast to share about the wisdom of the seaweeds. Tanya and I met many years ago at the Northern California Women’s Herbal symposium. At…
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My guest for this 2023 special edition Valentine’s Day podcast about friend love, called “Fantastic Friendship,” is my best friend in the world, Melanya Gonshorowski. While some people have marriage ceremonies and hand fast rituals to honor a coupling, Melanya and I decided that we are each other’s best friends and that we are platonically…
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I had the great pleasure of sitting down with musical guest Alice Dimicele for our podcast episode, “Nature As Muse.” Alice shared about her lifetime of letting song have its way with her, her singer-songwriter journey, and the many albums she’s released along the way. With Nature as her muse, several of Alice’s original songs…
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In my interview with Lydia Neilsen and Anne Freiwald, we discuss their permaculture organization, Vital Cycles. In addition to teaching programs to certify folks in permaculture, Vital Cycles, as these two wonderful ecologically savvy women will describe, is about making meaningful connections to the earth. I met with these two in Anne’s garden to discuss…
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“Assemblage: Creating a Living Canvas” is the final episode of Season 2 of my podcast. For the Winter Solstice edition of “The Positive Fantastic” podcast, I’m staying super local and interviewing a friend of mine here in Redwood Valley, California. Esther Siegel and I have known each other in many different ways, and several of…
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I interviewed wild guy Joybi Joyner, an amazing man who has spent the vast majority of his adulthood living in the wilderness, about “Old Tech, New Tech, You Tech, Through Tech.” We met last winter when I got to camp with him over the course of a couple weeks in Kauai. I was traveling with…
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