Here is a link to my interview with Deborah Kan on “being patient.” The show was podcast live. The link takes you to a transcription. The transcription page has the video link in it–just scroll down on “being patient’s” website.
Michelle Dunton produces a Youtube channel called “Writing Fun.” She interviews authors, screenwriters, people who teach writing. When she first e-mailed me to invite me to her channel, I watched some of her previous interviews with writers. I only had to listen to her introduction on the first video to be sold: I want to be on her show! I, too, want to feel as loved as the other guests—some of them household names, others not known to me. I, too, wanted the experience of being deeply valued as not only a writer, but a human being.
Michelle’s interview with Erik Bork, screenwriter, producer, script consultant and blogger best known for his work on the HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
In addition to owning and producing “Writing Fun,” Michelle and her son Keil Cronauer have a podcast titled “The Son of a Mother,” in which they talk about everything: parenting, current events, movies, books, you name it. Keil is one of her 6 talented children, now adults, whom she had raised as a single mother. She also has a number of grandkids.
When I met Michelle face-to-face on Skype, I felt—after a few sentence exchanges—that we must have been friends in a previous life! Michelle’s gift of making a person feel comfortable—and LOVED—is extraordinary. Thanks for a marvelous conversation, Michelle—the only thing missing was a cup of tea! So happy to know you!
You can listen to our interview here:
Writing Fun | Ep. 108 : Memory’s Last Breath with Gerda Saunders
This past Thursday, I was so honored to be interviewed by Canadian radio and television journalist Susan Bonner, who is currently the lead anchor of CBC Radio One‘s The World at Six. The program for which Susan interviewed me, though, is CBC’s Sunday morning program, The Sunday Edition.
Susan has been a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation reporter for close to 30 years. Born in Montreal, Susan earned a journalism degree from Ryerson University in Toronto before joining CBC as an intern in 1985—about the same time our family immigrated from South Africa. As a CBC political reporter, she worked all over Canada, from Toronto to Saskatoon, Calgary, and Montreal. During the Obama years, she did a stint in CBC’s Washington bureau, covering the Obama government and all the major global issues that dominate the U.S. capital. She lives in Toronto with her husband and son.
As I read about Susan before the interview, I discovered that her mother has dementia. At the end of our interview, when I thought we were no longer being recorded, I asked her about her mother. The show’s producer, Pauline Holdsworth, afterward wrote me that they had decided to include our conversation about her mother in the program. Listen to the program online.
Thanks so much, Susan and Pauline—working with the two of you has been a fabulous experience.
This fabulous woman, Marry Harris, interviewed me yesterday on New York City’s Leonard Lopate Show. WNYC is a New York public radio station.
Here is a photo of Marry Harris and her son taking up a 3-minute challenge by WNYC: First have a conversation where every response starts with “No.” Then, have another conversation and start every response with “Yes, but.” Finally, have a “Yes, and” conversation.
Here it is, dear friends: Melanie Rice interviews Gerda on Cape Talk Radio.
Thanks so much to those of you who were able to listen “live” and who sent me such lovely comments.
The Today Show piece was supposed to air tomorrow, but it came on unexpectedly this morning. Here it is:
Former professor on talking about her dementia: ‘It has made my life richer’
Peter and I happened to have the TV on and watched it. We thought they did a great job in condensing 2 days’ filming to just over 4 minutes. Of course I wish that they had shown as much of Kanye and Aliya as they did of kissy little Dante!
