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  • Author Interview: Mark Howen on One Fool’s Gold

    About: Mark Howen is the author of One Fool’s Gold, Requiem For The Rooster, and The Inherent Dangers in Digging up the Family Tree. His novels explore family, memory, loss, identity, and the ways the past continues to shape our lives. Inspired in part by questions about his own family history, Mark writes deeply human…

  • Author Interview: Umar Siddiqui on Inventing Your Exit

    About: Umar Siddiqui is an author, essayist, and creative thinker whose work explores themes of creativity, mental health, connection, fashion, music, identity, and personal growth. He is the author of Inventing Your Exit, a unique collection that combines playlists, essays, and poetry to encourage readers to look within, embrace creativity, and take an active role…

  • Interview: The Authors of God, Science, the Evidence on Science, Faith, and Reality

    About the Authors of God, Science, the Evidence: Michel-Yves Bolloré and Olivier Bonnassies are authors who explore the relationship between science, reason, and faith. Bolloré is an engineer and business scholar with a strong interest in philosophical questions, while Bonnassies, a graduate of École Polytechnique, is an entrepreneur who later pursued theology after moving from…

  • An Interview with Brigitte M. Volltrauer Shipman and Joseph D. Shipman on A Mother’s Guide Through Autism and Through the Eyes of the Guided

    About: Brigitte M. Volltrauer Shipman is a mother of two adult sons, an author, speaker, and a certified Martha Beck Life Coach with a Master’s Degree in Education. Her journey began over 30 years ago when her son, Joseph, was diagnosed with autism. Like many mothers, she initially experienced heartbreak, fear, and uncertainty about the…

  • An Interview with Maria: Empowering Lives Through Art and Expression

    Welcome to our interview series, Maria. We’re delighted to have you with us. As a lifelong singer-songwriter and artist, when did you first realize that creativity was essential to who you are? I realized at a young age that creativity was essential to who I am. Perhaps until adulthood it served me as a way…

  • An Interview with Susan, Author of Moments and Memories

    Susan, Congratulations on your second book Moments and Memories! It’s really nice to see you again after Seasons of Life. I enjoyed reading this collection, it felt very warm and personal. Is there a moment from your life that continues to shape how you think or write? Yes. I am always grateful to a positive…

  • An Interview with Misty Heggeness, Author of Swiftynomics

    About: Misty L. Heggeness is co-director of the Kansas Population Center, Associate Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at the University of Kansas, and former Principal Economist and Senior Advisor at the US Census Bureau. She is also creator of The Care Board, a dashboard of economic statistics built by and for caregivers that brings…