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Thanksgiving Special Episode

November 21, 2017Podcastcelebration, family, family traditions, giving thanks, gratitude, holiday, reflection, ritual, Thanksgiving, tradition, United StatesDianeMcDaniel

Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated in United States and a number of other countries. It began as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It’s a day for gathering with family and family friends and for engaging in family traditions and rituals.

To mark the day this is a special episode of the REAL podcast. This crowdsourced episode is comprised of reflections on gratitude and of how we celebrate Thanksgiving from Philippe Browning, Catherine Davidson, Laura Diamond, Tanya Ward Goodman, Chris J Rice, Laura Silverman, and others.

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Cassandra Austin: Writing the Strangeness Out

October 10, 2017Podcastalienation, Australia, Australian Gothic, author, California, Catholic, Catholicism, hemisphere, Los Angeles, Melbourne, novel, novelist, outback, pantser, plotter, sacrifice, social justice, United States, writerDianeMcDaniel

Cassandra Austin is an Australian writer and author of two novels who lives in Los Angeles. Our conversation explores how the profound sense of alienation that Cassandra experienced upon moving from the land with which she closely identifies has shaped her writing and helped her to develop her craft even while she struggled personally. Cassandra also talks about why she considers herself an Australian writer and how she discovered that writing time is more important to her than writing space.

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