January 15, 2025
It’s hard to believe we’re already halfway through January. Here at my house we finally put away our Christmas decorations and are putting out a few things for Valentines Day. Like many others, we’ve made and broken a few New Year’s Resolutions. You too? One of the resolutions that I’ve kept, though, is to improve the podcast openings. That starts this week. It’s still a bit rough around the edges but I expect it to improve as I learn more. As always, your suggestions are invited and welcome.
In case you missed it……
My guest last week was author/activist Jane (Keon) Jelenek. Jane stopped by to talk about her latest book “Toxic Town Cleanup”. It’s a followup to 2014 “Tombstone Town”. These books tell of her involvement with a citizens task force that is requiring the EPA and other government people to clean up the former site Velsicol Chemical plant. You can find these books on Amazon.
Coming Up……
My guest on Creative Conversations will be the marvelous concert pianist Vedrona Subotic. We talk about her newest CD “Chiaroscuro”, Beethoven, teaching, and so much more. You can learn more and hear her play at: vedronasubotic.com
In other news……
Author Janet Defever has begun a new blog. It’s pretty nice. Check it out here…
Sono Luminus presents Steal a Pencil for Me, the hauntingly beautiful new opera album from composer Gerald Cohen and librettist Deborah Brevoort released August 23, 2024.
An opera in two acts, Steal a Pencil for Me is a love story full of hope; a drama of overcoming great adversity, set during the dark times of World War II concentration camps. It is based on the true story of Jaap and Ina Polak, who fell in love as prisoners, amid great loss, helping each other to survive. Based on their love letters, which were published in a book of the same title, Steal a Pencil for Me is about the indestructibility of the life spirit and the power of humankind to survive adversity. The opera dramatizes intimate concerns and private dramas in the midst of the epic tragedy of the Holocaust
You can find it on Amazon
