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In this episode, which originally aired on March 10th, 2022, I share my conversation with Asheville-based psychotherapist Melissa Lopez. Melissa is in training to be a sex therapist, so that's what we're talking about, but in the larger context of the erotic, or Divine Eros, which Melissa broadly defines as "experiencing life through the senses." We discuss erotophobia and other ways that sex and shame get linked in our culture, along with how we humans tend to deny ourselves pleasure, and the role that nature has played in Melissa's own awakening around the erotic, among other topics.

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In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on September 16th, 2021, I celebrate my one-year anniversary of being social media-free! I deleted my personal Facebook and Instagram accounts on September 16th of 2020, after watching The Social Dilemma on Netflix, and I have no regrets! I'll talk about what going without the drug of social media has taught me about my own mind, and the various dangerous implicit messages that social media sends us by simply existing.

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In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on September 9th, 2021, I talk about a treatise called The Book of Divine Consolation, which was written by German Dominican theologian, philosopher and mystic, Meister Eckhart, around the year 1308. In it, Eckhart provides “some thirty topics that ought readily to console a rational man in his sorrow.” Give it a listen if you need some soothing.

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In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on September 2nd, 2021, I share a conversation I had with my good friend since middle school, Mike Thor. Mike was paralyzed from the neck down in a motorcycle accident in November of 2015. We'll talk about the very unique perspective he has on the nature of existence, as a result of his condition. 

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In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on August 26th, 2021, I share a conversation I had with my husband, Whitman Bolles, about what he's learned in researching climate science over the past decade or so. I also talk on my own about the spiritual challenge of climate change, via a discussion of Joanna Macy's Work That Reconnects, and Jem Bendell's ideas on Deep Adaptation.

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In this episode, which originally aired on August 12th, 2021, I talk about diaries, and how I came to be obsessed with them after inheriting some of my late paternal grandmother's diaries in the fall of 2016. I also reference Arnold Bennett's essay, "The Diary Habit," and the book If You Want to Write, by Brenda Ueland. 

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In this episode, which originally aired on July 29th, 2021, I explore some of the ideas presented in Bernard Basset's charming 1962 book, We Neurotics: A Handbook for the Halfmad. I especially focus on the benefits of lying on the floor every day, but I also discuss the importance of not thinking too much and of having a sense of humor about oneself.

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In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on July 15th, 2021, I explore some of the  ideas presented in the book Meditations, written by 2nd century Roman Emperor and brilliant Stoic philosopher, Marcus Aurelius. I especially focus on what Marcus had to say about death.

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In this episode, which originally aired in radio format on July 1st, 2021, I reflect on some of the ideas presented in the 1956 book, The Art of Loving, by Erich Fromm.

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In this episode I explore some of the ideas presented in the 1960 book Summerhill: A Radical Approach to Child Rearing, and I also share parts of my conversation with Asheville mother and child educator, Jess Spear. Freedom, discipline, punishment, sex, and other topics are discussed.