This week on The Rough Draft Diaries, you'll meet Michelle as we begin her story of addiction. This will be a two-part story so make sure to stay connected as we cover her recovery on the next episode of The RDD.

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries we're talking about a new festival called Firefly Nights. It's a nonprofit organization dedicated to planning events in downtown Bowling Green during the third Friday of each month. Tune it to hear how it all came together on this week's RDD.

This week, The RDD is at a coffee shop in Downtown Bowling Green. Since 1989 Grounds for Thought has offered coffee, used books, records and comics, and an engaging atmosphere to residents of northwest, Ohio. And you'll meet some of the community commonly found at this downtown business.

This week you'll meet Becky and Don as we visit their farm in Weston, Ohio. We'll talk hugelkultur, permaculture, and all things farming. Make sure to watch this behind-the-scenes video where you can see The Rough Draft Diaries and The Schooner Farms in action!

Today on the RDD, we meet Lucy M. Long, PhD, the Director and founder of the Center for Food and Culture, an independent non-profit that promotes deeper understandings of food and how it connects us all.

This week we're getting to know The Black Swamp Arts Festival with PR and Marketing Director, David Dupont. Tune in to hear more about this three-day arts and music festival, held annually, the weekend after Labor Day in September, in Bowling Green, Ohio.

Today on The Rough Draft Diaries, we're going back in time as we visit The Wood County Historical Society, a community organization that makes connections between our past, present and future by capturing stories and cultivating memories of Wood County, Ohio and the County Home.

This week we're headed where the RDD has never gone before, the final frontier, space! We interview Dr. Dale Smith an astronomy professor and the planetarium director at Bowling Green State University.

We're traveling outside northwest Ohio on this episode of The Rough Draft Diaries meeting Tarek Ismail, the Senior Staff Attorney in the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability & Responsibility (CLEAR) project, which primarily aims to address the legal needs of Muslim, Arab, South Asian and other communities in the New York City area.

This week on The Rough Draft Diaries you'll meet Rita Mansour, the Senior Managing Director of McDonald Partners. We'll talk about her day-to-day duties but also her passion in giving back to her local community of northwest Ohio.