Exploring how homemakers cultivate a place to belong. Seeking to honor and elevate the art of homemaking by highlighting stories of women who have practiced this art over the long haul. Through Homemaker Portraits and Deep Dive episodes on subjects related to keeping the home we hope to encourage listeners to practice their art of making a home with confidence, faithfulness and joy. New episodes every Monday and Wednesday.
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Serial killers. Gangsters. Gunslingers. Victorian-era murderers. And that's just the tip of the iceberg. Each week, the Most Notorious podcast features true-life tales of crime, criminals, tragedies and disasters throughout history. Host Erik Rivenes interviews authors and historians who have studied their subjects for years. Their stories are offered with unique insight, detail, and historical accuracy.
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Monday Motivation #42 | Advent Reflections, Joy for the Homemaker
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14:35Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. In today’s Monday motivation you’ll hear two articles reflecting on the third theme of Advent, Joy. The first, written by Karen Sheppard about Finding Joy in Jesus at the Table and second, a little reflection from me about finding joy i…
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415: The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald w/ John U. Bacon
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55:04November 10, 1975, marked the fiftieth anniversary of the sinking of the freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald during a vicious Lake Superior storm. All 29 crew members were lost, a tragedy later memorialized in Gordon Lightfoot’s iconic song. My guest is bestselling author John U. Bacon, who shares details from his new book, "The Gales of November: The U…
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414: The Martha Wise Murders w/ Rod Kackley
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54:41In the winter of 1924-1925, quiet Medina County, Ohio, was shaken to its core. Martha Wise, an ordinary farm widow with an extraordinary obsession, slipped arsenic into her family’s food and water. Three of her relatives were dead, dozens more gravely ill, and a rural community was gripped by fear. What followed was a murder investigation and trial…
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Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. 🎄Welcome to Week 3 of Holiday Homemaking 2025! 🎉 You will be hearing holiday stories of home from past guests Laura Ruoff, Rachael Bomsta, Georgetta Christinsen, Caitlin McCormick and Mystie Winckler. I will continue my series on Tradit…
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Monday Motivation #41 | Advent Reflections: Peace for the Homemaker
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16:14Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Happy Monday, Homemaker! We are continuing our Advent Reflections series with two articles on the second theme of Advent, peace, written by homemakers just like you. These two articles are meant to encourage you to reflect on our Prince…
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MoNo Encore: The Murder of President James Garfield w/ Candice Millard
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59:28Original Pub Date: 1/14/19 On July 2nd, 1881, a disappointed and mentally unstable office-seeker named Charles Guiteau shot President James A. Garfield in a Washington D.C. train station. Over the next weeks, Garfield would linger, bedridden, as infection set in, caused by poor medical treatment, and America would wait with bated breath over whethe…
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413: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday & Tombstone w/ Mark Lee Gardner
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1:20:10Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday were two complicated men whose steadfast friendship became one of the legendary relationships of the American West. Both were flawed, and often on uncertain moral ground, yet their bond carried them through the violent world of frontier justice, culminating in a deadly conflict with the Clanton-McLaury gang in Tombstone,…
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Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. In today’s episode, I am sharing 4 holiday stories of home from guests featured this year on the podcast. You will hear from Emily Baxter, Charity Gibson, Cara Semler and Bess Hawthorne as they share their Christmas memories, traditions…
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Monday Motivation #40 | Advent Reflections: Hope for the Homemaker
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14:20Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Welcome to the first Holiday edition of Monday Motivation! For the next few Monday’s I will be sharing with you some inspirational Advent themed articles written by past guests of The Art of Home. These ladies are homemakers just like y…
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412: The Killing of William Woodward w/ Jerry Aylward
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1:09:13In the early hours on a rainy autumn night in 1955, on a lavish country estate in Oyster Bay Cove, esteemed New York socialite Ann Woodward fired both barrels of her custom-made shotgun into the head of her husband, multimillionaire William J. “Billy” Woodward Jr., killing him. She mistook him for a notorious prowler who preyed on the privileged cl…
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Holiday Homemaking 2025 | Week 1: Favorites with Friends
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1:40:04Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. It's finally here!! I'm so excited to kick off our 5th annual Holiday Homemaking series with this very special episode featuring some of my dear friends. I am joined by Sarah Hackleman, Lauren Rice, Kathlena Rule and Kelsey Myers to tal…
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Monday Motivation #39 | Kick off the Holidays with a Gratitude Tree
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8:53Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Do you put your tree up early? Looking for a way to cultivate thankfulness this holiday season? Turn your unadorned tree into a Gratitude Tree for the month of November! Whether you use your unadorned Christmas tree, a cutting from the …
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Homemaker Portrait | Jenny Nanninga
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1:27:46Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. In this final Homemaker Portrait of 2025, I am chatting with In-the-Trenches homemaker and mama to 5 girls, Jenny Nanninga. I loved this conversation with Jenny. She is so wise, funny, and really, she's an open book. She candidly shares…
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411: The Murder of Zoya Fyodorova w/ Chris Pouy
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1:26:12My guest is Chris Pouy, who shares an astonishing true story of love, betrayal, and murder on this latest episode of Most Notorious. His grandmother, Zoya Fyodorova, was a celebrated Russian actress who fell in love with an American naval officer, Jackson Tate, in 1945. It was a forbidden romance that led to the birth of Chris’s mother, Victoria. Z…
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Monday Motivation #38 | Making Room in Your Heart
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11:08Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. 🎄Today we are wrapping up 😉 the "Making Room" series with a look at making room in your heart for Christmas. We've talked about Making Room in Your Home for gracious hospitality, Making Room in Your Budget for generous giving, and Makin…
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The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis - Southern Gothic
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36:31Just off the old Natchez Trace, in the quiet woods of Tennessee, stands a broken marble column marking the grave of Meriwether Lewis. The monument was meant to honor one of America’s greatest explorers, but its shattered form also reflects a life cut short under circumstances that remain unsolved more than two centuries later. In 1804, Lewis and Cl…
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410: The 1856 Dublin Railway Murder w/ Thomas Morris
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1:13:12In November 1856, Dublin was shaken by the murder of George Little, chief cashier at the Broadstone railway terminus. He was found in his office, beaten and with his throat cut, thousands of pounds worth of gold and silver left untouched and the door locked. The investigation gripped the public, filled with twists and unusual developments, includin…
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Homemaker Portrait | Caitlin McCormick
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1:24:33Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. I am chatting with in-the-trenches homemaker, Caitlin McCormick, about her experience keeping a home full time and homeschooling her 3 children. Married to Seth, a hospital Chaplin, for 7 years, together they are raising 2 toddlers and …
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Monday Motivation #37 | Making Room in Your Schedule
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12:17Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. How many times have you come to the end of the holiday season feeling like December went by in a blur of pointless activity and stress? Today I want to encourage you to take time early on to be thoughtful and purposeful with your holida…
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MoNo Encore: The Car Barn Murders w/ Karen Smith
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1:12:08(Orig pub date 8/15/23) In the early morning of January 21st, 1935 two employees of the Capital Transit Company in Chevy Chase, Maryland were cold-bloodedly gunned down. One of the men murdered was my guest's great-great uncle Emory Smith. As the police investigated the list of compelling suspects grew, but a powerful cover-up appeared to be in pla…
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Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Today, I am chatting with in-the-trenches homemaker, Jayme Cherry. It was such a delight to visit with Jayme and hear all about the ups and downs of military life, the unexpected blessing of having 4 kids in the span of only 4 1/2 years…
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Monday Motivation #36 | Making Room in Your Budget
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25:27Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. In this second installment of our Making Room Series, I'm joined by special guest, Jessica Fisher, to tackle Making Room in Your Budget for the holidays. We will look at 3 best practices you can implement now to avoid overbuying, stress…
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409: The Scientist & the Serial Killer w/ Lise Olsen
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1:29:46In "The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys", investigative journalist Lise Olsen tells the gripping true-crime story behind the “Lost Boys” murders in 1970s Houston, when more than two dozen teenage boys were murdered at the hands of Dean Corll, nicknamed the “Candy Man”, and his young accomplices. Through years of …
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Homemaker Portrait | Rosemary Young
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1:19:53Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. I am chatting with In-the-Trenches Homemaker, Rosemary Young, who is making a home in the midwest of the United States with her husband and little girl. Rose shares all about her journey of homemaking so far; including her transition fr…
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Monday Motivation #35 | Making Room for the Holidays in Your Home
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9:14Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Today, I am beginning a series of Monday Motivations all about Making Room for the Holidays. Over the next four weeks I will give you ideas for making room in your home, your budget, your schedule and your heart. I know it’s only Octobe…
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408: The Murder of Cecelia Gullivan w/ Jeffrey L. Amestoy
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1:05:33In November 1926, Cecelia Gullivan, treasurer of the Cone Automatic Machine company of Windsor, Vermont, was brutally killed in her home. Local police quickly arrested Cone Automatic machinist John Winters on suspicion of the crime, and the trial that followed was sensational and swift. Convicted of murder, Winters’ appeal brought in an unexpected …
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407: The Thames Torso Murders w/ Sarah Bax Horton
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1:02:24Victorian London is often remembered for the Ripper murders, yet at the same time another equally chilling series of slayings unfolded. Between 1887 and 1889, the dismembered bodies of four women appeared along the Thames. The river itself became the killer’s cover, its tides and hidden corners serving as a macabre dumping ground. Overshadowed by t…
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406: The Murder of Jujube Heiress Ruth Quinn w/ Taylor Kiland
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57:10The small Southern California island of Coronado rarely makes news for violent crime. But in the spring of 1975, World War II widow and retired librarian Ruth Quinn was murdered, execution-style, in her cottage. Her death sent a shock wave through the community. The granddaughter of Jujubes and Jujyfruits creator Henry Heide, Ruth was found fully c…
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MoNo Encore: The Murder of Dr. W.D. Broadhurst w/ Patrick Gallagher
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1:15:56(Orig pub date: 2/15/22) In October of 1946, a chiropractor and rancher named Willis "W.D." Broadhurst was beaten with a wrench and finished off with a shotgun on a lonely eastern Oregon road. Investigators would soon accuse his wife Gladys of plotting the doctor's murder with the help of his young cowhand and her lover, Alvin Williams. Stunning de…
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405: A History of Eugenics in America w/ Mark A. Torres
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1:07:20In the early twentieth century, eugenics captivated scientists and the public alike, giving researchers license to exploit the infirm, the mentally ill, prisoners, Native communities and many others considered "defective" or "feebleminded" under the guise of genetics. At its center stood the Eugenics Record Office in Cold Spring Harbor, directed by…
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404: Gunfighter Clay Allison w/ Donna Blake Birchell
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1:04:47Clay Allison was both liked and loathed in his lifetime, embodying the contradictions of the American frontier. He could show moments of kindness for the downtrodden, but also carried deep hatred for Northerners and Black people. Dangerously unpredictable, he was capable of generosity one moment and chilling violence the next, a quality that made h…
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Homemaking Deep Dive | Flourishing as a Full Time Homemaker
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1:28:21Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Today I am wrapping up Season 25 with the second part of our series on Full Time Homemaking. Last week, Jessica Fisher and I discussed the why, what and how of choosing full time homemaking in Part 1, So You Want to Be a Full Time Homem…
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Monday Motivation #34 | Don't Blow Your Food Budget; Meal Plans & Fast Food at Home
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15:49Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Back-to-school schedule putting the squeeze on your food budget? Struggling for dinner ideas each night or visiting the drive through too many times? Today, I have two articles from former Art of Home guests. Homemaker, LeAnne Stadler, …
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403: The Madman of Crystal Beach w/ M.F. Gross
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1:23:49In the sultry summer of 1949, a sleepy Florida beach town was rocked to its core. A brutal home invasion, a shocking murder, and a desperate, month-long manhunt captivated and terrified an entire region. At the center of the storm was John Calvin “Rastus” Russell, a cunning ex-con and former asylum patient who unleashed a wave of fear unlike anythi…
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Full Time Homemaking Deep Dive, Part 1| So, You Want to Be a Full Time Homemaker?
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1:22:40Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Today begins a 2-part Deep Dive series on full time homemaking with guest, Jessica Fisher. We are NOT here to give you hard and fast rules about whether or not you should be a full time homemaker. Our goal is to affirm your desire to st…
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Monday Motivation #33 | A Homemaker's Summer Pt 3; Helping Others Make a Home
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8:43Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Summer is winding down and so is my short series on reflections from a homemaker’s summer. In previous episodes, I’ve shared with you the lessons I learned about my homemaking weakness when climbing hills in Switzerland and the great ex…
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402: The Reno Redfield Heist w/ Gavin Schmitt
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1:03:40The 1952 burglary of eccentric multi-millionaire LaVere Redfield’s mansion in Reno, Nevada was the largest of its time, but also a comedy of errors. "Masterminded" by a French-Canadian woman with a questionable relationship to Redfield, it also included a failed safecracker and a crew of Italian-American hoodlums from the Milwaukee underworld. My g…
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Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. I am chatting with homemaker, writer, podcaster and baker of bread, Abigail Dodds. I was so honored when Abigail agreed to come on The Art of Home and share her unique story of home with us. She’s been married to Tom for 23 years and th…
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Monday Motivation #32 | A Homemaker's Summer; Italian Hospitality
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10:01Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Last Monday I started a new series call “A Homemaker’s Summer”; three short episodes in which I am sharing some homemaking lessons God has taught me in summers past. Whether across the ocean or across the state, He always has new insigh…
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401: The First Forensic Hanging w/ Summer Strevens
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55:42The First Forensic Hanging: The Toxic Truth That Killed Mary Blandy by Summer Strevens tells the story of Mary Blandy, executed in 1752 for poisoning her father Frances Blandy with arsenic. Her trial was the first in Britain to use toxicology as evidence in an arsenic poisoning case, marking a turning point in forensic history. Drawing on period ne…
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Homemaker Portrait | Mystie Winckler
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1:11:12Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. I am chatting with homemaker, homeschooler, podcaster, and writer, Mystie Winckler, about her experience of keeping a home over the last 24 years. She candidly confesses that having come from a large family, she thought she knew everyth…
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Monday Motivation #31 | A Homemaker's Summer; Reflections on Hill Climbing
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9:34Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. It’s summer time, and that often brings opportunities for holidays. Whether by the seaside or in the mountains, getting away from the everyday bustle of the home can allow for times of rest and reflection. I find, that if I am paying at…
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MoNo Encore: The Bermondsey Horror w/ Gavin Whitehead
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1:17:42(Orig pub date: 2/3/24) On August 17th, 1849, London police officers made a grisly discovery at the home of George and Maria (born Marie de Roux) Manning. Her former beau, Patrick O'Connor, had been buried under the floor. A nationwide hunt for the couple would follow, and after that a trial and executions. The murder case would grip London so ferv…
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Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. I am so excited to share this conversation with you! Belinda, Amber and I draw from the Bible and our own experiences to cover the What, Why, When, Where and How of communicating with God through prayer. Topics Covered: Dangers of Praye…
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Monday Motivation #30 | Homemaker Culture; An Artful Life
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12:41Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Inspired by our Deep Dive into Creating a Learning Environment in the Home with Lyndsey Mimnagh, I am continuing a series of short episodes to give you ideas for pursing Homemaker Culture, that is, filling your own soul with experiences…
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400: The Legend of Belle Starr w/ Michael Wallis
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1:08:39Myra Maibelle Shirley, better known as Belle Starr, was one of the most notorious female outlaws of the Old West (if you believe period newspapers, anyway). My guest, bestselling and award-winning author Michael Wallis, made it his mission to tell the true story of Belle Starr, and in the process dispels many of the myths that surround her. He shar…
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Homemaker Portrait | Bess Hawthorne
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1:20:46Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. In this episode, I am chatting with Bess Hawthorne, seasoned homemaker and host of the Come Over for Dinner Podcast, about her experience keeping a home for the last 29 years. She shares her journey of raising 5 kids and juggling some h…
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Monday Motivation #29 | Homemaker Culture; Nature Study & Journaling
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16:25Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. In last Wednesday’s episode, Creating a Learning Environment in the Home with Lyndsey Mimnagh, I promised you some more information on nurturing your own love of learning through various practices of Homemaker Culture. I’ve already cove…
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399: The Life & Crimes of Robert Spears w/ Jerry Jamison
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1:46:18"Doctor" Robert Spears was arguably one of the greatest con artists of the twentieth century, and very likely a mass murderer. In thirty nine years of grift, he had 25 aliases, 28 arrests in 20 cities, and was imprisoned close to a dozen times. He performed, without any medical degree, abortions on countless women, and in 1959 tricked his best frie…
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Homemaking Deep Dive | Creating a Learning Environment in the Home with Lyndsey Mimnagh
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50:37Send me a one-way text about this episode! I'll give you a shout out or answer your question on a future episode. Today, I am chatting with Lyndsey Mimnagh of Treehouse Schoolhouse, about how to create learning environments in the home. Whether you are a homeschool family or not, you will find value in this discussion. Topics: Lyndsey's Story: A fe…
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