Life
Carl has a wonderful chat with podcast host Shalom Shore about his experiences as a Christian Scientist.
Photos of Day of the Dead, Jefferson Parker and Matt Coyle. Nonprofit Storytelling conference, and Once Upon a Book event.
Hello from San Diego. Day of the Dead The Day of the Dead is a wonderful celebration that, despite the name, is a number of days in which the dead are honored. It is both a happy and sad occasion with dancing and music. It starts one day after Halloween on November 1. This is […]
What’s it like to live in a place where people are fighting over the language that they can speak? It’s not easy. And in some ways it’s harder than being plopped into somewhere where people only speak one local language. My family went through this when we lived in Montreal for fifteen years. Quebec is […]
Greetings from San Diego. This month I had the pleasure of speaking with a man who used to be one of the largest money launderers for a Colombian cartel. And he was an FBI agent the whole time. No one from the FBI had been able to infiltrate a Colombian cartel like he did. I […]
Mehalet moved to San Francisco from Ethiopia when she was four years old. She thought everyone in her new home would speak Amharic and couldn’t understand why they didn’t. She was used to the grains and stews of Ethiopia and hated American food. When she went to kindergarten she had to spend all her time […]
Greetings from San Diego. I was lucky enough this month to be interviewed for two podcasts and to contribute to another author’s blog. But something else exciting is coming up. I and three other authors are trying something I’ve never done before. We’re doing an event at the Lightning Brewery. See more about it below. […]
The Wall Street Journal recently profiled a human resources executive, a sound engineer, an academic, and a psychologist who moved to Canada because of U.S. politics. Even Timothy Snyder, the famous Yale historian who wrote On Tyranny, escaped to Toronto. My wife and I moved there from Chicago for different reasons in 1989. She was […]
Hello from San Diego. It’s hard to believe summer is winding to an end. In this issue you have a chance for a free book and to get a free primer on how to tell a story. See details in the newsletter below. Thanks for reading Carl Vonderau’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new […]