There She Goes

Today we travel with Jesse Gardner to Vashon Island, Washington, where, en route to look for whales, she discovers an unwieldy dream on the side of the road.

Jesse is a writer and photographer. She co-founded Write, a workshop for writers on Orcas Island. She's been a contributor to the Huffington Post, and a Guest Columnist at the New Tribune. Her photographs have twice earned an "editors pick" on National Geographic's Your Shot and she's served as the Official Photographer of the Doe Bay and Timber! Music Festivals. Jesse is creating a feature-length screenplay based on the life of her 8x (do you say Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great) great-grandmother.

There She Goes...AGAIN

Today we’re here with Faith Adiele in our first bonus episode of There She Goes … Again.

We visit with Faith to learn more about how her story ends and what she takes away from her time in Thailand.

Today we travel with Faith Adiele to Thailand, where, on a pilgrimage in search of famous nuns, she finds her plans abruptly changed by a group of drunken businessmen, one small, sleepy boy, and the threat of bandits.

FAITH is the author of the memoir MEETING FAITH, an account of becoming Thailand’s first Black Buddhist nun that won the PEN Open Book Award. Her media writing credits include the HBO-Max limited series, A WORLD OF CALM, and the PBS documentary MY JOURNEY HOME. Her essays appear in numerous anthologies, including four volumes of BEST WOMEN’S TRAVEL WRITING. Faith founded the nation's first writing workshop for travelers of color through VONA/Voices, and she teaches and lectures around the world on decolonial and inclusive travel writing.

Today we travel with Suzanne Roberts to Santorini, Greece, where a mother-daughter trip turns into an adventure that neither woman expected.

Suzanne’s books include the memoir in travel essays, Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel, the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail, the forthcoming essay collection Animal Bodies: On Death, Desire, and Other Difficulties, and four books of poems. She was named “The Next Great Travel Writer” by National Geographic’s Traveler Magazine, and her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, and elsewhere.

Today we travel with Mathangi Subramanian to Bangalore, India, where a young girl teaches her about pride, prayer, and the politics of desire.

Mathangi is an Indian American writer and educator whose middle grades novel, Dear Mrs. Naidu, won the South Asia book award. Her novel A People’s History of Heaven was a finalist for the LAMBDA literary awards and was longlisted for the PEN/Faulkner and the Center for Fiction first book prize. Her personal essays and op-eds have appeared in Harper’s Bazaar, The Washington Post, Ms. Magazine, and Al Jazeera America, among others.

Today we travel with Natalie Baszile to southern Louisiana, to experience the healing power of FOOD.

Natalie is the author of Queen Sugar, which has been adapted for a fifth television season by and co-produced by Ava DuVernay and Oprah Winfrey. Her new non-fiction book We Are Each Other’s Harvest: Celebrating African American Farmers, Land & Memory, was published by HarperCollins in April, 2021.

Today, for our very first episode, we’ll begin in the South, in New Orleans, with my co-host Kelly Chappie, telling the story behind the making of There She Goes. It involves very big oysters, very cheap cocktails, a few Tornado warnings, and a friendship that was waiting to happen.

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