On June 29, 2018 Julia Hanna interviewed Kelly Clear, the narrator for the Audible edition of When Sword Met Bow, and Aya Katz, its author.
Kelly Clear is from a musical family and grew up reading books out loud to his siblings. He has been married for thirteen years and has four children and one on the way. Vacuum County was the first book he narrated on Audible, released last year. Kelly and his family moved from Michigan to Washington State last year after finishing the primary recording for Vacuum County.
Kelly Clear holding u p a copy of When Sword Met Bow
Topics discussed in the interview include:
Why it is important to read to children
How different children respond to being read to
Favorite parts of When Sword Met Bow
The children in the Clear household and preparing for the new baby
Kelly’s participation in Community Choir
Library programs that foster literacy
Laura Ingalls Wilder and current political moves to penalize her fiction
Evelyn Adams is the narrator for Ping & the Snirkelly People, soon to be out on Audible. She became an avid reader at the age of eight when she was first introduced to the wonderful world of Roald Dahl. Reading has always been a passionate interest for Evelyn, leading to her first young author’s award, when she was thirteen. Evelyn resides in Toronto, Canada and is an English teacher by day and a narrator by night, reading to her little daughter.
Julia Hanna interviewed Evelyn Adams and Aya Katz on June 22, 2018.
Some of the issues discussed include:
The inspiration for Ping’s voice.
How Evelyn Adams became an Audible narrator.
How being an English teacher helps Evelyn with her job as a narrator.
Evelyn’s knowledge of Urdu and Punjabi.
Toronto, Canada and its environs — attractions for tourists.
Greater Toronto area and its mix of cultures.
Other books that Evelyn is narrating.
Other children’s books by Aya Katz
The inspiration for Ping & the Snirkelly People
Evelyn’s favorite scenes in Ping & the Snirkelly People
The references to events and media from 1967 in Ping & the Snirkelly People
On June 1, 2018 Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with guest Sophia Delaat.
Sophia Delaat is the author of The Mermaid’s Taleand a renowned gourd artist. Raised in a military family, the daughter of a Colonel, Sophia got to travel extensively as a child, growing up and going to school in the United States, Portugal and Japan. She went to college in Texas, became interested in early childhood education, was trained in teaching, taught in Melbourne, Australia, became a Waldorf school teacher, raised a daughter on her own, later married, and is now living in the Missouri Ozarks with her husband, where she works on gourd art and serves as a CASA worker.
On May 18, 2018 Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with guest Kathy Freeze about the novel she is writing, her purple martin colony, her nature photography, trips to Yellowstone Park, mentoring of other purple martin landlords, her libertarian beliefs and who she would be voting for in the Senate race in Missouri.
Kathy Freeze is a libertarian, an avid nature-lover and amateur photographer who lives in the beautiful Ozarks of Missouri. She also blogs about her adventures with nature, her purple martin colony, butterflies, bees and native prairie restoration on her blog at “The Birds & The Bees”.
Topics discussed include:
The book Kathy is writing and what her inspiration was for this work of realistic fiction.
Her purple martin colony and her work mentoring other purple martin landlords.
On May 11, 2018 Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with artist Lanie Frick about her art, her reputation as a colorist, her professional membership in artist organizations and how she went about getting two grants at the same time from two different art organizations to improve her technique and hone her approach to her artwork.
“Colorist” is the term used most often when referring to Lanie Frick fine art painter. Her use of color infuses subjects of horses, domestic animals, wildlife and the supporting landscape with light and mood. Lanie’s painting style is one of intuitive expression where realistic subjects show movement and life by vivid notes of impressionism.
Lanie is a juried member of Women Artists of the West (WAOW) and Best of Missouri Hands (BOMH). She has been the Featured Artist for large events such as the Nebraska Horse Expo and PRCA Rodeo in Missouri. Her paintings are regularly juried into regional and national exhibitions including the 2014, 2015 and 2016 National WAOW shows, “Gallopalooza” of Louisville, KY, as well as published internationally on cover art for novels and magazines. Public and private collectors throughout the United States and abroad have purchased her paintings.
Topics discussed during the live interview on May 11, 2018 included:
What it means to be a “colorist”.
What is “intuitive expression”.
How Lanie Frick became an artist.
How Lanie Frick became a juried artist and became a member of Women Artists of the West and Best of Missouri Hands.
When, how and why Lanie Frick decided to apply for grants, and how she came to be chosen for two grants at the same time.
The best mindset and approach when applying for an art grant.
Color, composition. design and value as terms of art.
Impressionistic painting and expressive painting.
A brief discussion of modern artists such as Pablo Picasso and Jackson Pollock.
Inspiration for artworks and finding models and subjects.
Commissioned art work versus spontaneous art or self-motivated art.
How to find your own style rather than mimicking the style of others.
Lanie Frick’s portfolio of past art works and the art she is working on now.
Lanie Frick is the author of four books about color mixing in art, available on Kindle.
On May 4, 2018, Julia Hanna and Aya Katz spoke with Dr. Paul Connett about the effects of water fluoridation on the health of human populations exposed to this practice.
Dr. Paul Connett is a graduate of Cambridge University and holds a Ph.D. in chemistry from Dartmouth College. From 1983 until he retired in May 2006, he taught chemistry at St. Lawrence University in Canton, NY where he specialized in Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology. Over the past 32 years his research on waste management has taken him to 49 states in the US, 7 provinces in Canada and 65 other countries, where he has given over 2500 pro bono public presentations. He helped found the Fluoride Action Network
(FAN) for which he is the current executive director. He has given invited presentations on the dangers of fluoridation in Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Japan, New
Zealand, the UK and the US. This has included invited presentations in 2003 to
both the US EPA and the US National Research Council.
In our interview on May 4, 2018 Dr. Connett discussed the following topics:
How he came to realize that fluoride is dangerous for human populations.
How fluoride is treated differently from other toxic substances like arsenic.
The fact that the MCLG allowed by EPA for fluoride is 4.0, while for arsenic it is zero.
The fact that there has never been a double blind controlled study of the benefits of fluoride.
The fact that recent medical studies reveal that any benefit conferred by fluoride to teeth is in fact topical and therefore fluoride need not be swallowed to derive the benefit.
The contraindications for adding fluoride to drinking water, including lowered IQ, rheumatoid arthritis, hypothyroidism, and skeletal and dental fluorosis.
The way in which water fluoridation effectively medicates whole populations without obtaining informed consent.
