Carl Vonderau
My New Podcast I’m starting a podcast called People of Interest. It is part of the Authors on the Air Network. We are a group of 40 authors who interview other authors. My podcast will be looking primarily at true crimes. I did an interview with William Mann on Tuesday about his book, Black […]
First of all, Happy Holidays. Not the best time to be on diet, but that’s where I am. I’ve lost 8 pounds and have to keep it off somehow. Nonprofits and Storytelling I was lucky enough to attend the Nonprofit Storytelling Conference here in San Diego in November. There were hundreds of people there. […]
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 […]
So you think your life will be easy because you made a lot of money through early investment in cryptocurrencies? Not so fast. It used to be just your computer was held hostage for a crypto ransom. Now it’s you. A slew of people have been abducted in France and even one New York. Why? […]
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 […]