Another very interesting fellow that I met on After Hours is Tom Ferguson. He is retired from working for the city of Phoenix as a system creator, studio maker, and IT wizard. (Well, that's not the word HE used, but to me it seems like wizardry!)
The Ferguson family moved to Arizona when he was 10, and he has never found reason to leave. This is a fascinating interview sparked with bits of tech info and CUTE CATS!
Cats? Why cats? Well, it turns out that Tom has been a photographer for a long time and one of his favorite subjects are his cats. (That's them in the picture.)
His t-shirt reads: MY MIND IS LIKE MY INTERNET BROWSER:
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Nikki H is a "Creativity Coach" and her eddress tells it all -- FindYourDelight@gmail.com -- Her delight is helping others find THEIR delight. Her passion is fostering CREATIVITY in many ways for as many people as she can. Her Pinterst account says Nikki H is a: "Delight finder. Creativity coach. Content creator. Event designer & stylist. Dancer. Traveler."
She is also a lot of fun to chat with! Listen in as Nikki and Lois head for the wild blue yonder in this episode.
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"Cat Tales and Animal Stories"
That was what we called the zoom session where our friends came to reminisce about their pets -- current or former. Lois also collected stories that were told at Jim's last birthday party (also on zoom). A dozen people tell lots of tales about lots of tails!
Hope you enjoy hearing about the critters as much as we did.
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Ray Maxwell is a fascinating man. He has done so many wonderful things, we'd need a month to even summarize them! In this episode we touch on a few -- hot air ballooning, finding minerals by looking at vegetation from space, how wind moves over mountain peaks and what those aerial waves and ridges can be used for, changes in vision after cataract surgery, setting up a studio, teaching people to fly (motor planes, gliders, remote control planes, and drones), Vancouver BC Canada, lots of tech, and philosophy. Although Lois and Ray met thru Office Hours, Ray has many other years of broadcast experience -- radio, tv, podcasting, web streaming, and Youtube. You can see his face online at:
Maxwell's House -- "Stop by the house of polymath Ray Maxwell and see what he's investigating today. Ray is a teacher, color scientist, pilot, photographer, Photoshop wizard and raconteur who each week takes on different real-world applications of complex scientific notions."
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Rupert McRae !!!!! 'Nuf said.
Well, actually, that's not enough. Rupert is one of the great panelists on "Office Hours", which is where Lois met him. He has had a long, productive career in other people's companies and is now his own boss.
It's too complicated to try and describe everything in this summary. Better you should just listen to this show.
(Note: You can also SEE Rupert McRae on various episode of Office Hours on their website.)
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Author and journalist Anne Da Vigo joins Lois to talk about her books and her process.
Anne's journalism career (specializing in feature writing and crime reporting), spanned more than a dozen years at newspapers throughout California. Her latest -- Bakersfield Boys Club -- was loosely inspired by the Lords of Bakersfield murders of the 1970s and 1980s. Da Vigo covered the trial in the first of the Lords murder cases.
She is the author of a previous thriller -- Thread of Gold -- and numerous short stories. She is also part of the Blue Moon writers' group that meets weekly in Davis; and, as always, continues to write.
The finale of today's show is two Merle Haggard songs about Bakersfield.
(This aired two weeks in a row -- 2 Dec and 9 Dec 2021.)
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Local author Bill Pieper is today's guest. He has published many works -- mostly short stories.
His most recent book -- Borders and Boundaries -- is a series of ten short stories which reads like a novel. While each story could stand on its own, the thread of characters and locations ties the book together into a greater whole.
Listen to him reading from Borders and Boundaries along then hear Bill and Lois talking about ... well, just about everything. Bikes? Yup. Drumming? Yup. Publishing in the midst of a pandemic? Yup. Sci-fi porn? Yup. Reading books onstage? Yup. The effect of places on people and culture? That, too.
Bill lived in Nevada City for many years, and his stories often are set in a western locale. Now he lives in Sacramento and comes to Davis weekly to be part of the Blue Moon -- a writers' group hosted by Scott Evans*.
Bill Pieper is working on writing a new book (no date set yet); and he is hoping to resume the promotion of Borders and Boundaries once restrictions ease and a new tour can be arranged.
You can see a list of his books at: https://www.goodreads.com/author/list/708305.Bill_Pieper
That includes his popular Belonging - A Tale of Downieville and California's Modern Gold Country and Forgive Me, Father: Twelve Stories.
But if you want to walk on a wilder side, read his most-popular-story-ever, at: https://www.redfez.net/fiction/sci-fi-alien-dreams-616
PS: This episode also aired on Thanksgiving, 11-25-2021.
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Author Barbara Meyer Link talks about her new book -- Chokecherry Girl -- and about writing.
Music by Jose Cabezas closes the show.
PS: This episode also aired on 10-28-2021.
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That's Life. That's Water and Soil!
Understanding our water -- where it comes from , where it goes, how it's used, and by whom -- is a vital to knowing what to expect in the future. Understanding how our soils were formed and how the various soil types interact with that water is the basis for many of our gardening and farming decisions.
Davis is in the Sacramento River watershed. It was either marsh or grasslands before Europeans arrived. Because we had annual flooding, our rivers and creeks developed natural levees which overtopped each year and deposited gravel, sand, silt, and clay on the surrounding land -- the lighter particles travelling further than the heavier material. So your yard might be sandy-loam, silty-loam, or clay-loam -- depending on where in the county you live.
Soils and water and other things are part of this episode, talking here to guest Don Shor (of Davis Garden Show fame!) about so many things we don't have time for there.
-- Lois Richter, KDRT.ThatsLife@gmail.com
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