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In this heartfelt episode of Tendrils of Grief, we are joined by Katie, a talented actress whose journey into acting began two years after losing her mother to dementia at a young age. Katie's role as Denise in Sophie Jones marked the start of a new chapter in her life—one that beautifully weaves together her previous roles as an English major, mother, and portrait photographer. Katie is widely recognized for her roles as Beth in Winter Island and Sadie in Going Home, seasons 1 & 2. She has earned accolades for her work in award-winning films like Front Porches and the web series Gamer. Katie is currently working on her first feature film, Wake Up Maggie, a deeply personal project and love letter to her late mother. When Katie isn't on set, she's busy capturing portraits, coaching aspiring actors, or creating meaningful content. Outside of her creative work, Katie enjoys practicing yoga, hiking in nature, taking tap classes, and, of course, savoring a good cup of coffee. Tune in to this inspiring conversation as Katie shares her journey of loss, healing, and channeling grief into art, passion, and purpose. Episode Highlights Katie actress Sophie Jones Katie Winter Island Beth role Katie Going Home Sadie role Wake Up Maggie feature film Grief and acting journey Healing through acting Actress Katie award-winning films Katie Front Porches best actress Portrait photographer turned actress Acting after loss Grieving mother dementia story Katie creating content online Acting coach and yoga enthusiast Katie tap classes and hiking Wake Up Maggie love letter to mom Acting as a Tool for Healing – How art helps process grief. Turning Grief into Creativity – Stories of transformation through art. Wake Up Maggie: A Love Letter in Film – Honoring loved ones through storytelling. Award-Winning Indie Films – Rising stars in independent cinema. From Photography to Acting – Transitioning creative careers. Balancing Parenthood and Passion – How Katie embraces her roles. Dementia Awareness Through Art – Highlighting dementia stories in film. The Intersection of Life and Creativity – Channeling personal stories into acting. Coaching the Next Generation of Actors – Sharing skills and stories. Self-Care for Creatives – Yoga, tap, and hiking for balance. Learn more about Katie Website www.katieprentiss.com Movie www.wakeupmaggiemovie.com Instagram https://www.instagram.com/katieprentiss/ IMBd https://www.imdb.com/name/nm10018602/ Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@katieprentiss Instagram https://www.instagram.com/wakeupmaggiemovie/ Did you enjoy today's episode? Please subscribe and leave a review. If you have questions, comments, or possible show topics, email susan@tendrilsofgrief.com Don't forget to visit Tendrils Of Grief website and join for upcoming Webinars, Podcasts Updates and Group Coaching. Get involve and share your thoughts and experiences in our online community Tendrils of Grief-Survivor of Loss To subscribe and review use one links of the links below Amazon Apple Spotify Audacy Deezer Podcast Addict Pandora Rephonic Tune In Connect with me Instagram: @Sue_ways Facebook:@ susan.ways Email @susan@tendrilsofgrief.com Let me hear your thoughts!
Some musicians wait until the spring and summer to tour... but Sherman Downey and Matthew Byrne prefer a salty road. We chat with the duo about the revival of the "Winter Island Tour." (with Anthony Germain)
Consider your Total Cost of Ownership when buying a van! We'll also explore a great camping spot in New England, how to get out of a mental rut, whether you should allow your van to warm up, and we'll hear the tale of a well-traveled doll. FIND US: We're on Facebook (Built to Go Group), Instagram (@collegeofcuriosity), and we have a Discord server (invite at top of main page at builttogo.com.) Randi, or Darwin? A Place to Visit Winter Island - Salem, Massachusetts https://www.salemma.gov/winter-island-park Resource Recommendation Oblique Strategies - Brian Eno http://stoney.sb.org/eno/oblique.html Product Review Voltemeter plus dual USB sockets https://amzn.to/43XCxou Some links are affiliate links. If you purchase anything from these links, the show will receive a small fee. This will not impact your price in any way.
This week we discuss the safe ways to caching islands during the snowy icy winters. Water crossings, hazards, its all discussed. Call in and share your best tips!
Episode Notes S3E41 - Join us as we dive into the mind of award winning FX artist Naomi Mechem -Miller. She'll take us her journey around Beauty, TV & Film industries all the while letting us know what it takes to make someone look their best or their worst..... Naomi Mechem-Miller is known for Friday the 13th Vengeance 2: Bloodlines (2022), Winter Island and Zombiegeddon You can watch the Video of this episode at https://www.stilltoking.com/season-3 Now you can send stars to the stars fb.com/stars This episode is sponsored by Deadly Grounds Coffee "Its good to get a little Deadly" https://deadlygroundscoffee.com ————————————————— Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=awhL5FyW_j4 Check out Toking with the Dead Episode 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SaUai58ua6o Buy awesome Merchandise! https://www.stilltoking.com/ https://teespring.com/stores/still-toking-with ————————————— Follow our guest https://www.naomimechemmiller.com/ https://www.realfictionstudios.com/home https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12797797/ https://www.facebook.com/naomi.mechemmiller/ https://www.instagram.com/green.ghoul.gal/ ————————————————— Follow Still Toking With and their friends! https://smartpa.ge/5zv1 https://thedorkeningpodcastnetwork.com/ ————————————— Produced by Leo Pond and The Dorkening Podcast Network https://TheDorkening.com Facebook.com/TheDorkening Youtube.com/TheDorkening Twitter.com/TheDorkening Dead Dork Radio https://live365.com/station/Dead-Dork-Radio-a68071 Check out Green Matters: https://www.facebook.com/GreenMattersMiddleboro/ More about our guest Naomi Mechem-Miller is a non-binary makeup artist from Seattle, WA. She loves all things horror, fantasy, and science fiction, with her favorite genre being horror comedy. Naomi attended the Art of Makeup School in Portland, OR and completed two years education at Sarah Lawrence College in New York. She is currently living in Bothell, WA and is willing to travel for work. Naomi is a member and co-owner of Real Fiction Studios, a special effects studio located in Bothell. RFS specializes in practical effects, blood squibs, props, costumes, prosthetics, and other fun things that will increase your production value.
Jennie and Dianne are joined by David Moffat, a Visitor Services Specialist & researcher at The House of the Seven Gables. David has done a lot of research into the life and work of Caroline Emmerton, the woman who saved the House of the Seven Gables by turning it into the museum we know today and using the funds from that museum to create a settlement house for thousands of immigrants who came to America in search of a new home. Emmerton's legacy can be traced all across the city of Salem. Her grave is in Harmony Grove Cemetery. Her birth house still stands on Summer Street and her home as an adult can still be seen today on Essex Street. The mark of her generous spirit can be found at the Women's Friend Society on Hawthorne Boulevard and at the Plummer Home for Boys on Winter Island. Come along as we learn more about one of America's most Ordinary Extraordinary women!To learn more about The House of the Seven Gables or to become a member, please visit their website at: https://7gables.org/To learn more about Harmony Grove Cemetery, please visit their website at: https://www.harmonygrovesalem.org/
Brigid "Scrambles" Scott, who lives and teaches in Jasper National Park, takes a break from her instructional duties to chat with Doc about the Great Divide Trail and her upcoming SOBO PCT thru hike. During this action-packed, hilarious episode, we get to hear about the Great Day of Booking, the totally sane and normal Canadian National Park reservation system, willow carnage, camping on Winter Island, and the soul-sucking Jack Pine River Route. And Moose Jaw. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/johnfreakinmuir/support
Specialist is surprised they let you in. Tonight we're going to an isolationist village, paying five G's for Ultima, going 323 meters underground just for fun, listening to diegetic Julia, reading at a bad time, finding a god damn Laguna statue, falling off another cliff, becoming what's in our hearts, working to earn anything, showing off my big open hand, punching an ass, and convincing Shumis to perform their talents. If you have come here, you must know Master Laguna. 02:07 Intro | 04:49 Winter Island | 09:04 Elevator | 10:39 Underground Outdoors | 13:31 Inn | 16:52 Artisan's House | 20:50 Workshop | 25:30 Elder's House | 32:20 Stone Quest | 42:01 Completing the Statue | 52:15 Real Net | 56:18 Outro Find us on Patreon at patreon.com/retroAM, on Twitter at @retroamnesiapod and through e-mail at podcast@retrogradeamnesia.com. www.retrogradeamnesia.com
The Boston metropolitan area offers a rich and intriguing look back to several significant points in American history: the landing of the Mayflower, the Boston Tea Party, the War of 1812. One community close to Boston that has held multiple levels of interest and fascination for literally centuries is the small town of Salem, 15 miles northeast of Boston proper. Most people know Salem primarily as the site of the notorious 1692 Salem Witch Trials, as well as for its many references in media and popular culture for all things witchy and woo-woo. But Salem contains far more than metaphysical curiosities. This week on the See America Podcast, Winter Island in Salem, Massachusettes. Connect with See America: See America Facebook Group: See America on Instagram: See America Facebook:
Video games in your van? YES! Here's how. Also, an electric dry box, an easy shower solution, Winter Island: the place to stay for a visit to Salem, MA and Roadside America, the only tourist guide you need. COVID-19: This the BEST resource https://vanlifers.co/pages/coronavirus Video Games in Your Van It's all about power and what you want to do. Clear winners: PC laptops and Nintendo Switch. But want to play the latests games on your favorite console? Doable. TECH TALK: Electric Dry Box Fight humidity with an enclosed space and a old-fashioned light bulb. A PLACE TO VISIT: Winter Island, Salem Massachusetts This historic 17th century fort will welcome you and your rig for a visit to the Witch City. Winter Island Info PRODUCT REVIEW: SmarterFresh Quick Connect Sink Faucet Sprayer Set This thing is great - it turns almost any sink into a shower you can use indoors or out https://amzn.to/2ShvGmv Q&A - Essential Tools? Which tools should you bring? Quick answer: pick how much space you want to devote to tools, and then take a subset of all the tools you used to build your van. Resource Recommendation: Roadside America While the website is great, get the app (pay for it!) and you'll never be without someplace interesting to visit. https://www.roadsideamerica.com/
Unique in its structure and written to mimic the tidal charts that Evie studies as well as the natural ebbs and flows of life, Creatures takes readers on a provocative and mesmerizing journey as Evie is forced to reckon with her complicated upbringing in this lush, feral land off the coast of Southern California. On the eve of Evie’s wedding, a dead whale is trapped in the harbor of Winter Island, the groom may be lost at sea, and Evie’s mostly absent mother has shown up out of the blue. Evie grew up with her well-meaning but negligent father, surviving on the money he made dealing the island’s world-famous strain of marijuana, Winter Wonderland. Although he raised her with a deep respect for the elements, the sea, and the creatures living within it, he also left her to parent herself. Crissy Van Meter based Creatures on her own coming of age in Newport Beach. “I was asking questions about what it means to grieve, to love, to experience love informed by grief, and to love someone who isn’t always good.” She explains, “I was interested in digging into my own experiences with my father’s drug and alcohol addiction, his failures as a father, and the dichotomy of still loving him so much… And, I was interested in exploring what it means to have a treacherous past with a father like this, and what it means as an adult to decipher what it means to love, what it means to forgive.” Van Meter is in conversation with Edan Lepucki, bestselling author of the novels California and Woman No. 17.
Wrap up warm and prepare to explore the breath-taking beauty of a remote Scottish island and an old house waiting to unlock enchanting family secrets. Do you need to find out where you've come from before you can know what the future holds? Ruby's singing career is on the verge of hitting the big time, when her voice breaks. Fearing her career is over, she signs up for a retreat in Tenerife to recover. But an unexpected call from a stranger on a remote Scottish island takes her on a short trip to sort out some family business. It's time to go and see the grandfather she's never met. City girl Ruby knows she will be happy to leave the windswept beaches behind as quickly as she can, especially as a years-old family rift means she knows she won't be welcome at Teach Mhor. But as she arrives at the big house overlooking the bay, she finds things are not as straightforward as she might have thought. There's an unexpected guest in the house and he's not planning on going anywhere any time soon ...
Tune in for the podcast version of FYI Salem! Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll interviews city officials, community leaders, notable residents, and more, and provides a brief update on the latest news and information from the City of Salem, from inside City Hall and across the community. On the latest episode Mayor Driscoll talks with Keegan Whitehair, director of Sail Salem, a youth and adult sailing program based at Winter Island park. Sail Salem: http://sailsalem.org Winter Island: https://www.salem.com/winter-island-park Short Term Rentals in Salem: https://www.salem.com/str Neighborhood Street Sweeping: https://www.salem.com/home/news/city-salem-releases-spring-street-sweeping-schedule-1 Certified Age-Friendly Businesses: https://salemforallages.org/services/age-friendly-business/
Tune in for the podcast version of FYI Salem! Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll interviews city officials, community leaders, notable residents, and more, and provides a brief update on the latest news and information from the City of Salem, from inside City Hall and across the community. On the latest episode, Mayor Driscoll talks with Jen Lynch and Judith Reilly, founders and coordinators of the new Salem chapter of the League of Women Voters. They discuss the League's mission, current issues and projects, and upcoming voter registration deadlines to participate in the 2018 election. Salem League of Women Voters: https://lwvma.org/leagues-in-massachusetts/state-league-units/salem/ Salem Heritage Days Festival: https://www.salem.com/home/news/salem-heritage-days-includes-13-days-fun-family-events Salem Cultural Council survey: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/GZN6S8Z Palmer Cove Park public meeting: https://www.salem.com/home/news/public-meeting-palmer-cove-park Canal Street Roadway Improvement Project final paving: http://www.buildingsalem.com/canal-street-roadway-improvement-project/ Winter Island storm water control grant: https://www.salem.com/mayors-office/news/salem-receives-coastal-pollutant-remediation-grant Green Communities grant: https://www.salem.com/mayors-office/news/salem-receives-green-communities-grant Mayor Jean Levesque Community Life Center: https://www.salem.com/home/news/salem-mayor-kim-driscoll-announces-opening-mayor-jean-levesque-community-life-center
Tune in for the twice-monthly podcast version of FYI Salem! Salem Mayor Kim Driscoll interviews city officials, community leaders, notable residents, and more, and provides a brief update on the latest news and information from the City of Salem, from inside City Hall and across the community. On this episode, Mayor Driscoll speaks with Salem's Superintendent of Public Schools Margarita Ruiz, as the new school year approaches. We had some audio quality issues in this recording, primarily around the opening few seconds and the closing few seconds - apologies in advance! For more information about the Salem Public Schools: http://salemk12.org/ Details on the By All Means initiative: http://edredesign.org/by-all-means Read more about the Winter Island pop-up drive-in: http://www.creativesalem.com/drive-in/ Find more information about the proposed revisions to the FEMA flood maps for Salem, including links to the maps: http://www.salem.com/home/news/city-salem-present-proposed-flood-map-revisions
Winter IslandLes Djinns (Trentemoller Remix) - Djuma SoundsystemViolins (Original Mix) - Chris Lake & Marco LysStopover (Original Mix) - Dirty South & Mark KnightAfter The World (Extended Big Room Mix) - Alex Armes, Prok & FitchThe Island (Steve Angello, AN21, Max Vangeli Remix) - PendulumJaana (Original Mix) - KaiserdiscoPast Dreaming (Original Club Mix) - Funkagenda, Sultan & Ned ShepardAreena (Dirty South Mix) - Thomas Gold, David Tort, David GFire In Your New Shoes (Sultan and Ned Shepard Electric Daisy Remix) - Kaskade feat. Martina Of DragonetteAlways (Max Vangeli & AN21 Remix) - SwitchfootNo Reasons - Christian Vila & Jordi Sanchez Mix (Laidback Luke Edit) - Alex ArmesNitro (Original Club Mix) - Michael WoodsReaver (Original Mix) - Marco VIllmerica (Extended Mix) - Wolfgang GartnerWhere You Are feat. Shawnee Taylor (Steve Angello Edit) - Junior Sanchez, Alexander Technique, Harry Romero, Shawnee Taylor
We've just concluded our month of being a family of four rather than three; for the month of October and even for a piece of November, we "adopted" Zephyr's friend Libby from the San Francisco Bay Area. This week, rather than bring you a story as usual, we catch you up on what we've been up to during the busy three weeks (Yes, three. Yikes!) since our last podcast. And Libby gives her impressions of what it's like to be a fulltime traveler. Well no, she doesn't really do impressions of us, but she does tell of her experiences with us. It was a fairly busy time for our business, so we went to a number of schools; but one of the more memorable schools was a red one-room schoolhouse that only tourists enter these days. Its most famous visitor ever was not a person but an animal -- specifically a lamb. And the lamb's owner was a little girl named Mary. No, we're not kidding -- that little poem, one of the most famous in the world, was inspired by a true incident, and not even names were changed to protect the silly. This schoolhouse, built in 1792, was once attended by young Mary Sawyer, who secretly brought her pet lamb to school and hid it under her desk. Just how you'd keep that a secret is beyond us, but it definitely depends a great deal on the silence of the lamb. And this one didn't cooperate for long -- when Mary went to the head of the class to recite something, the lamb stopped being sheepish and made so much noise that Mary was no longer able to pull the wool over the teacher's eyes. The rest of the class was delighted, including John Roulstone, who was visiting from another community. Later, he scribbled down the first few lines of the soon-to-be-famous verses and handed them to Mary. In 1877, the little snatch of doggerel (sheeperel?) would provide the first words ever recorded on a phonograph -- recited by none other than Thomas Edison himself. The schoolhouse, which is open for tours during the summer (we just missed the season, but we were able to to peer into the window at its period furnishings) originally stood in the nearby town of Sterling. No, it didn't crawl or slide to Sudbury; it was moved in 1923 by none other than Henry Ford to its present location, a very fitting neighborhood for popular lines of poetry. Such as "I shot an arrow into the air./ It fell to earth I know not where." Or "Beneath a spreading chestnut tree/ The village smithy stands." Or "into each life some rain must fall". Or "ships that pass in the night". Or "I heard the bells on Christmas Day". Or "This is the forest primeval." Or "Listen my children, and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere." All of these are from poems written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), who had a strong association with another building just a few yards from Mary's lamb's schoolhouse. It's the Wayside Inn, which Longfellow immortalized in his collection of narrative poems entitled "Tales of a Wayside Inn" (1863), including the celebrated verse version of Paul Revere's less than stellar ride, which Longfellow Hollywoodized into an epic achievement. The inn has been in operation since 1716, making it reputedly the oldest operating inn in the country. Many of the rooms have been preserved as they might have appeared nearly 3 centuries ago. Well mostly, restored is probably a better word than preserved, since the property was heavily damaged by a fire in 1955, revealing for the first time in ages a stairway that had been sealed off, and is now open to public viewing. From Sudbury, we headed to Salem for Halloween, hoping to land jobs at a haunted attraction as we did two years ago, and we scored. Zephyr was in hog heaven doing a Capt. Jack Sparrow impersonation. As always, we camped at Winter Island, the former Coast Guard Station that has been converted into a public park and campground. And before Libby abandoned us to head home to California, we took a train excursion to the Big Apple to catch a Broadway show. And then our "daughter" left the nest, and we're back to "normal", if that word ever applies. Happy Listening, Dennis, Kimberly, Zephyr & Libby
There's nothing wrong with trusting your friends, as long as you don't entrust them with responsibilities they can't handle. A certain king learns that lesson the hard way when he sticks his neck out a bit too far in "The Foolish Friend", a folktale from India.But rather than just tell what happens from beginning to end, we start after the big blunder and do some detective work to piece together what happened. Yes it's "CSI Bombay", our retelling of the story modeled after the hit TV series "CSI Las Vegas", which Zephyr is obsessed with these days. (CSI stands for "Crime Scene Investigation").We're coming to you from Nickerson State Park out on Cape Cod, where we're taking advantage of one of our favorite biking trails. The campground has rebuilt and regrouped after the disastrous fire that destroyed the historic headquarters building the last time we stayed here.We just left the historic city of Salem, where we had a return engagement at the library. But we've enjoyed many other visits to this colorful town as well, a town where history seems to seep out of every crack in the pavement and clapboards.The city is best known for something that actually happened a few miles up the road: the infamous witch trials of 1692 actually took place in Salem Village, or what is now Danvers. Nonetheless, it is the city of Salem that has become associated with the ugly episode in the public ,mind, and Salem has returned the favor by erecting a monument to the victims, and by establishing many tourist attractions commemorating the tragic events. We have the fondest memories of being in town two years ago for Halloween (a holiday for which this town pulls out all the stops); and thanks to Zephyr's passion for "haunted house" attractions, all three of us were hired by Witch Village to help handle the onslaught of revelers. Zephyr scared the wits out of people in a "haunted house". Kimberly helped hold down the fort at the information booth. And Dennis escorted candlelight ghost walks, exploring some of the reputedly REAL haunts of Salem. When work was done well after midnight, we'd hop on our bicycles and ride to our campground on Winter Island -- in the snow one night!It doesn't take a forensic investigation to realize that delving into the mysteries of Salem's past can be a very memorable experience.Happy Listening!Dennis (Investigator), Kimberly (Queen and Darwin), and Zephyr (Investigator)