On the sixth voyage of the A Toda Madreship, Marisol and Jennifer are joined by novelist Rachel DeWoskin, who chats with us about her two new novels, Someday We Will Fly and Banshee. We learn what it's like to be a famous tv star in another country. We also explore the craft and discipline of doing creative work while parenting and sustaining a family and a marriage.

On the A Toda Madreship’s fifth voyage, we journey into the power of music and songwriting to heal our bodies and minds. We talk with Angela James, whose new album of lullabies, Quiet Night evokes those weird and magical pre-dawn hours with a tiny baby in your arms. Also joining us is Emmy Bean, who makes music with sick children in local hospitals, and writes and performs with “Chicago’s only end-times vocal trio” 80 Foots.

The fourth voyage of A Toda Madreship takes us into springtime, the season of emergence and rebirth. What a great metaphor for the story we get to hear about people revealing their true selves to the people they love most! Marisol and Jennifer talk with a mother and a daughter who tell stories of the things they share with each other and the things they are still coming to understand. Featuring a new original song by Media Luna.

It’s February and we’re in love! On the third voyage of the A Toda Madreship, your captains Marisol and Jennifer are going to take you on a musical ride through the tunnel of love. We’ll talk about love songs: listening to other people’s love songs and writing our own. We’ll wax effusive about the love songs that shaped us, tell our own tales of legendary love, play some original love songs, and share great love songs by local artists The Sentinels, Puritan Pine and Katie Belle and the Belle Rangers.

Happy New Year from the A Toda Madreship! On this episode, we're going to share our hopes for 2019. And we have the honor of talking with mother, artist and educator Nicole Marroquin, about her research on the little-known history of Chicago school walkouts from the 1960s to today. We also have original music from home-grown Chicago musician, composer and activist Rosalba Valdez. Enjoy!

On this episode we talk about how we got started with this Podcast, we talk about family separation and we share two original songs, one by Marisol Ceron, and the other by Jennifer Klonskey. We also welcome our first guest, Renato Ceron who shares about his experiences with family separation.