Welcome to Take a Leaf, a project of Green Writers Press, giving voice to writers and artists who will make the world a better place. Based in Brattleboro, VT, Green Writers Press is a publisher with an environmental and local focus. Each episode of Take a Leaf will highlight an author, artist, writer, or book-person, in whatever form they may come. Thanks for joining us.

False Alarm is a wry, fish-out-of-water story about Kate McCabe, a dedicated but somewhat neurotic woman trying to juggle her career at a sports management firm with her marriage to a lawyer-about-to-quit-his-job-to-become-a fireman husband, who seems more interested in hoses than a home life. Things get complicated when Kate enters an office bonus race to sign the dashing football player Pedro—throwing her competitive all-male colleagues in chaos—and even more complicated when Pedro falls f ...

The Ultimate Plot Twist podcast provides a space for families to share their stories of when life handed them the unexpected. We will hear the things they have learned, the challenges they faced, and the wisdom they wish they had known sooner to help them along the way. Our host, Jen Barger, is a mom to two amazing children, one of which just happens to have an extra chromosome. In her families’ own crazy, beautiful journey to learn more about Down syndrome, she found that real valuable advi ...