For this episode, I headed out to the peninsula  to talk with a friend.  She's a native Chicagoan, now living in the Bay Area, a former High School teacher who followed her dream to become a YA author.  We are part of a book group or should I say, eating- and- hanging- out- with- the- girls - while -our- kids- play- Minecraft- in - the -other -room group.   But that's beside the point. She published her first book It's Not Like It's A Secret  with  Harper Teen in May of 2017. So without further adieu, you're invited to eavesdrop on our conversation from late February 2018.