by Betsy Fasbinder | Dec 2, 2020 | Podcasts
Terry Sue Harms is the author of her third book, a remarkable accomplishment for a woman who didn’t start reading until she was in her early twenties. This new release is a memoir titled The Strongbox. In it, she reveals the grit, tenacity, and courage it took to not only tackle her reading disability but also to find her absent biological father and face his rejections. Terry Sue didn’t begin writing until she was in her forties, but she’d been hairdressing since she was a teenager, and it’s the intimate story-telling nature of that profession that has fueled her personable, candid, and compelling writing style.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Nov 18, 2020 | Podcasts
At age forty, Gretchen Cherington, daughter of Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Richard Eberhart, faced a dilemma: Should she protect the well-crafted myth of her famous family? Or was it time to challenge those myths and speak her truth? In her memoir, Poetic License, Cherington candidly retraces her past to make sense of her father and herself. She examines what she calls both the gifts and the harms of her growing up surrounded by the literati of her era and with a father who violated the boundaries of good fatherhood. From the Women’s Movement in the ‘60s to the #MeToo era, she tells the story of speaking truth in a world where, too often, men still call the shots.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Nov 4, 2020 | Podcasts
Angela Alioto is a legal and political lioness who has taken her family’s political legacy and made it her own. Fighting for health, opportunity, justice, and the environment, she has served both in the political arena and the courtroom. Her memoir, Straight to the Heart, covers her eight years in San Francisco politics and is appropriately based on Dante’s Inferno.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Oct 21, 2020 | Podcasts
Carmen Martines, having survived sexual abuse traumas in childhood, re-storied her body using tattoos, transforming the pain and abuse into a narrative of power and reclamation, transformation, strength and joy. Carmen is also a psychotherapist, practicing in San Francisco and a lifelong writer, poet, and storyteller.
by Betsy Fasbinder | Oct 16, 2020 | Podcasts
We at The Morning Glory Project are pleased to announce the inaugural Morning Glory Award. These are special acknowledgments for individuals that rise above and exhibiting exceptional and inspiring demonstrations of their humanity. Our inaugural Morning Glory... 
by Betsy Fasbinder | Oct 7, 2020 | Podcasts
Dr. Adiel Uzabakiriho was in the U.S. in 1994 attending college when civil war and an ensuing genocide broke out in his home country of Rwanda. He would eventually learn that many in his own family and many more in his community had been murdered and his dreams of returning home were dashed. His dreams of becoming a doctor were also thwarted because, despite seven surgeries, he lost his sight. Refusing to succumb to hopelessness, Adiel has made seeking joy, community, and optimism a practice, providing inspiration to those around him.
