Hey, wonderful's welcome to episode 552 of the JV club with my guest

Catherine Finstwin. Now, Catherine is an author. She's written a couple of

wonderful books and is also a teacher and is also a long-time listener of the podcast.

So it was really gratifying, very cool to have her on and talk about her own teenage years,

even as she continues to guide the teens of today

and the adults of the future. So please enjoy this episode. I hope everybody's

doing well and I will go through maybe next week I'll give kind of an

update on like convention upcoming at convention appearances and stuff for those of

you who might be interested in giving me a squeeze in person but I don't have that information in front of me right now, so I will plan on doing that next week.

And if you were in the line of the eclipse on Monday, I hope it was wonderful and awesome.

And I mean that in the most conventional old-timey sense of the word I hope you

were awed by it. Many people in my life were in the scale the range the sliver of

totality but it was also very overcast for a lot of folks anyway enough

eclipse talk enjoy this episode with Catherine Oh, you're going to be a new thing.

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You know. Oh, Look at your quilt, your sweet quilt in the background.

Are you wearing...

I'm not, I am matching you perhaps perhaps I have the electric blanket is it exactly the same

blanket your yours looks a little puffier but it we are matching in color oh okay

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