Maggi Hoogs joins me to speak about Neurodiversity, Celiac Disease, and the lessons we learned from this fun-a-day podcast for the month of January 2022.

Jennifer Gonzalez joins me for a discussion on looking at and researching Art, being an academic, getting comfortable with terms Latinx/Chicanx , specialization in the Humanities, Complexity and Civil Discourse, Profit and Art, Art vs Making, and what we decide to do and not do.

After the birth of her son Raven Lang knew something was wrong with the medical structure around birth. Learning the right way to support a mother giving birth was a process of witnessing births and re-learning. From her and other women's experiences Raven helped spear head the Home Birth Midwifery movement.

Tom Fredricks speaks of retirement and his very full career as a ballet dancer in New York and Switzerland, marketing and tour director for the Houston Ballet for ten years, and co-running the Santa Cruz based Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music for over 20 years including it's transformation from a bankrupt organization into the world renowned festival it is now. Tom studies undergraduate work at Notre Dame, and holds an MBA from Stanford Business School.

My mother Diana Wright Troxell is an artist and face painter - business owner.

Brian Young, software developer, father, maker, home owner, and good friend.

Bonnie Jean Primbsch is a former radio broadcaster, an artists, a gardener, a grief counselor, a conflict mediator, and does her best not to Bogart the Flow.

Emerson Murray, is an author, painter, film maker, gamer, radio-DJ, inaction figure maker, and an inspiration. I met Emerson in Highschool, he handed me a camera and told me to take pictures. He made me a bit character in a sci-fi melodrama, he made me a lead in a small black and white film, and we spent more then a decade battling aliens and creating worlds together.

My middle child Gwendolyn joins me for a late night chat about shows we like that are problematic, voices, friendship, and stories of bad parenting and hot glue.

Warren Sack joins me for an after dinner conversation about learning language, academic tenure, education, politics, and more.