November 5, 2024 • 18 mins
Abbey's Road is a novel about a family. An ordinary family with troubles and feelings and one very large secret. The creator of the secret has recently passed away and with his passing will come the inevitable revelation. Ordinary people living ordinary lives, or maybe not. Check out our interview here: About the Author: Danna Schweitzer is […] The post Abbey's Road by Danna Schweitzer appeared first on WebTalkRadio.net.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hello, book lovers, and welcome to Author's Corner. Get ready
for a whirlwind tour of the latest and greatest reads
and the fascinating stories behind them. Join us as we
chat with authors and newsmakers from all over the world,
diving into their journeys and creative processes. And now here's
the host of Author's Corner, the Emmy Award winning Kate Delady.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So please to welcome to Author's Corner, Dana Schweitzer. She's
written a whole bunch of books, but the one that
we're going to talk about, and we will mention the
others too. Abby's Road. It's her road has been so
interesting and this book is fascinating, and I think there
will be a lot of people in this audience actually
that would enjoy this novel and can relate to some
(00:44):
of the stories in this So, Dana, thanks so much
for coming on ac thank you for having me. Let's
talk about You've written other books, but let's focus on
this one for a second. Tell us what's unique and
different about this what spurred you on, what mode of
evaded this story?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Like a lot of my books or things that I've written,
there's a character in my head that comes and just
will not let me go, keeps nudging me to write
their story, and so I do this particular lady, I
(01:25):
was attempting to write a story, a novel where there
was not a lot of conversation. I wanted to tell
the story with a lot of description, and so that's
kind of what I did, kind of John Steinbeck, Kennery
(01:48):
Rowe sort of voiceover thing if I was doing a movie.
And out of that came Abbys wrote. Abby is a
character who is a middle aged woman, a recent widow.
She has three grown children, and they are interacting and
(02:14):
it kind of tells the story of each personality with
these four people, what they are doing, and a lot
about what they're thinking and feeling. By using this method
of getting away from a lot of conversation, I was
(02:36):
able to tell about what's the interior of the characters.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Was that fun for you because, like you said, you
could really flush out their emotions. I love when you
said that about the emotions, because that's a whole different approach.
Then I said this, and you said that, and then
we went here and oh they were angry about this.
That had to be really and I've been poured out
of you that had to be really something that was
fun to write and super unique because you could really
(03:06):
develop the characters.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It really was fun to write by being able to
get into the mind and the emotion of the characters.
They tell me what they are thinking and feeling and
I put.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It down nice.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yes, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
To write nice. And it's interesting having read this and
processing what you're saying. It completely makes sense to me
because usually when we read and this is different about yours,
Like you talk about Shelling, they're Shelly. You talk about Margaret,
(03:49):
tell us about you know, we're gonna give everything away,
but tell us about Margaret. What's Margaret like?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Margaret is a very small stature of person. She looks
different than her siblings, and her view of the world
is probably different than theirs. From infancy, She's grown up
in a particular family. She has a very strong connection
(04:21):
to her father, and as most first child siblings, she
feels distant from her mother. She loves her, but there's
a distance in there. But she's a very strong character,
even though she's a tiny person. She's one of those
(04:43):
little people that you might meet in your life who
can really do a lot of tough business.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Boy, so agree. I like that description. I so agree
with that. I've met a few of those people, absolutely,
and I have a few fabulous, you know, relatives that
I would describe when relatives in a good way because
they didn't take charge. They weren't evil awful, they stepped
up and people respected that and it didn't matter their stature.
So I love that description. And you know, the book
(05:13):
is Abby's wrote, and I'm gonna give people just a
little taste here. Abby woke up early, early enough that
she had enough time to drink a cup of coffee
and ponder what to do next before she picked up
her daughter. She'd been able to discern that they probably
both needed to go home. Margaret may not want to,
(05:35):
or she may have difficulty getting time off from work,
but Abby would broach this subject and see what happened
from there, and what I liked you talk about conversations
with the other two children. Told her that they had
been talking and were trying to put pieces together. Margaret
was a beautiful baby whose mother had practically who had
(05:57):
died practically in childbirth. So like you say, how you're
really telling us about who they are and what's happening
with them? Why did you say Abby's Road? Why did
you pick Abby?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The character told me what her name was, and she'd
been running around in my head for almost two years
before I finally wrote her. But her name was always
Abby right from the very beginning. And I don't know,
probably because I'm a Beatles era human being. Abby's wrote
(06:36):
springs automatically to mind. And I was always afraidable if
I call it that, it's going to be some kind
of infringement. I don't want to get in trouble, but
it's what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, no infringement. You're allowed to do that. So it's
interesting in talking about Abby's Road and taking a different
direction in this and really, like I keep using the
word flushing out, but really help the characters. That makes
us get attached. I think to certain characters, when people
read the book, what do you hope they take away?
(07:08):
Somebody says, I'm going to read this novel. When they
read it, what do you what do you hope they
walk away with when they finish the last page?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
That we can be given a tough life, we can
have a rough road ahead of us. But Abby never
becomes mean, She never becomes angry at how her life
has been. And it's the last statement that she makes
(07:39):
in the book so far. I do have a sequel coming,
you do, or I'm going to tell you yes, I'm
going to take these characters a little further. They won't
let me go, so I've got to write this.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I will chant that. Yeah, I love that, so that
you know, you get involved in the story. You're not, Oh,
I wonder what would happen in the future. And that's
good writing when somebody's reading the novel and then they
get to the end of it and say, wow, I
need something else. I want to see what else happens
in the future. And that's why they're not letting you go,
is what I'm surmising. You know, you and I talked
(08:16):
off the air and we talked about life in Oklahoma,
and we talked about farming in Oklahoma and what that
was like. And for some people they can in this
audience and watching this, they can relate to that. But
would you've ever thought farming in Oklahoma would have led
you to this incredible writing career because you've written several
(08:37):
books and now you've got another one rattling around.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
No. But I think maybe I'm a little bit like Abby.
I think I don't choose my life. I think it
happens to me.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh, you let And so it unfolds, It just.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Unfolds before me, and it's like, well, what are you
going to make of this? What are you going to
do with this?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And in doing that and leading us to the first
book you wrote, tell us about the first book you
ever wrote and what was the inspiration for that.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The first book I ever wrote was If God Is
a Woman? Who Am I? And this was a it's
a compilation of some poetry and a couple of short
stories that I wrote during the work that I was
doing for I think it was my master's degree. And again,
(09:44):
this was something where it just pushed me to create.
And I created this and almost simultaneously had The Hidden
Hidden Treasure of Calumet, which is a biography of a
(10:08):
very interesting little Catholic church where I'm a member, and
there was a particular priest who really encouraged me to
write this, and actually I published this one and they
If God is a Woman? Who Am I? At the
same time.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Wow, So they.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Originally came out together. Oh they're very different genres, they're
still the same.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Tell Us about Calumet what was what's that like?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Calumet is a little tiny town about I read somewhere
once that they've never had a population of more than
four hundred people in the actual town. There's not much
left of it anymore. There's you know, the usual couple
of gas stations and a convenience store. There were restaurants.
(11:03):
I think there is a restaurant there again. There's a bank,
and there's a school goes all the way from kindergarten
to high school, good school. And there's five churches, which
is very typical for Oklahoma. You'll have a little tiny
town and have all kinds of churches there.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Right, because you from other places, right?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, the farmers all you know, the people.
There's only four hundred people in the actual town, but
there's all these farms out here, and in Oklahoma, about
every one hundred and sixty acres belongs to another family.
And so we have all these families that have known
each other, grown up together all their lives. It's kind
(11:49):
of kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I was going to say that, what a unique thing,
because so often now we find ourselves moving and shifting
into different worlds and different populations. You grow up here,
you go to school here, you marry someone here, or
you're single and you're traveling around for your job, and
there has to be I don't know what it is.
Maybe it's grounding, or it's the comfort in knowing there
(12:14):
are people who actually know you. Has that been a
good feeling.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's a kind of a good feeling. But it's a
little disconcerting sometimes because people I'm not from here. I'm
from Kansas, born and raised there, but left. You know,
it's as soon as I could, I got away. But
then I come here and eventually marry this man who
(12:41):
is a fourth generation farmer on this piece of land,
and so people that we go to church with will
have known him from the time he was born.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
They know things about him that I.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Had no idea.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Sometimes it's really funny and sometimes it's kind of old.
I didn't know it could be like that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I so understand that. Wow. And then life on the farm,
what's life on the farm?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Like? It's always busy. There is always something that needs
to be done. There's always another piece of equipment that's broken.
My husband right now is out sewing wheat. This morning,
he was working cattle. He had to get in the
(13:30):
calves and get them ready to eventually be sold. We'll
sell in a couple of months the calves because we
do cow calf pears. So we have cows and we
have maybe calves right now, and then we have bulls.
Have to manage all those little little eiffers and so forth.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, all the animals. So for you in writing the book,
like Abby's wrote, as we come back to that, the
novel and different characters in the book and how it
poured out of you, is any of the inspiration do
you think from anything around you? Does anything around you
kind of come into some of your books?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
For these characters, each one of them has a little
bit of some portion of my life because I'm really old.
I'm seventy eight now, and so i can look back
on my life and see that I've lived in five
year increments. I mean, my husband and I've been married
(14:37):
for thirty five years, but within that there been five
years for school, five years for this kind of job,
five years. Somehow at the end of that five years.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I move on, which maybe other people have the similar
thing with blocks of time might be longer, it might
be shorter, but it's interesting to look back at that
by the way, you're not old seventy eight? Are you
kidding me? That is not old? Well, we certainly can't
wait for your next book to come out, the sequel
Abby's wrote, and all the other great books you told
(15:10):
us about you can get on Amazon, Barnes, Noble, wherever
great books are sold. And Wow, just having this conversation
with you just I think is wonderful and spurs on
I hope for other people the idea that you always
have the ability because I see you as that person
to do to do what it is wherever life takes you.
(15:31):
You can adapt, you can put that puzzle together. And
that's kind of the sense I got from your book
and the characters and their strength.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Great. Well, there is one other book, okay, Secrets in
the Desert. This is my big novel that I wrote
based on a little story I did for the Master's programming.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And tell us about that book, Secrets in the Desert.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Secrets in the Desert is a conver between ten professors
out of college.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
He's a bored.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Professor looking for something new, and she is a slightly
younger professor who's just come back from Europe and North Africa.
She'd been on a archaeological dig and all of the
they sit together and she tells him her story of
(16:31):
the last year. Now she traveled around Europe. She met
up with a distant mother that mother passed away, and
it sort of talks about a lot of the adventures
that she had and how he's going to help her
write a book.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Wow. Interesting and so some of that I'm sure came
about because of where you were, right. Did that kind
of inspire you?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It did. Inspiration for the two professors at a university
was my own experience of going to university to get
my doctoral degree.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So nice, Yes, I like that. Tell everybody what your
doctoral degree is in.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I have a Doctor of Ministry degree in spiritual direction.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Wow, and that has that has I've here, I hear
that can be really tough to get. So it takes
a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, but my children were almost grown or totally grown,
and it's pretty boring on the farm, and the opportunities
were there. I'm so appreciative of the technological things that
we have now. You don't have to always go to
another building or another town or another room in order
(17:53):
to receive the education that that you feel like you
can do.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Boy, isn't that the truth? Well, like I said before,
we can't wait to see what happens next with you.
So interesting all of these various books, and you can
get them at any place where books are sold. For sure.
I'll tell you I really enjoyed Abby's wrote I read
it cover to cover, and that says something as busy
as I am. I did it and I just could
not put it down. You kept me up, Danna Schweitzer,
(18:20):
until four in the morning, finishing that book one night's
that's high praise for you. So thank you so much
for joining us.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Uh, thank you
Hello, book lovers, and welcome to Author's Corner. Get ready
for a whirlwind tour of the latest and greatest reads
and the fascinating stories behind them. Join us as we
chat with authors and newsmakers from all over the world,
diving into their journeys and creative processes. And now here's
the host of Author's Corner, the Emmy Award winning Kate Delady.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
So please to welcome to Author's Corner, Dana Schweitzer. She's
written a whole bunch of books, but the one that
we're going to talk about, and we will mention the
others too. Abby's Road. It's her road has been so
interesting and this book is fascinating, and I think there
will be a lot of people in this audience actually
that would enjoy this novel and can relate to some
(00:44):
of the stories in this So, Dana, thanks so much
for coming on ac thank you for having me. Let's
talk about You've written other books, but let's focus on
this one for a second. Tell us what's unique and
different about this what spurred you on, what mode of
evaded this story?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Like a lot of my books or things that I've written,
there's a character in my head that comes and just
will not let me go, keeps nudging me to write
their story, and so I do this particular lady, I
(01:25):
was attempting to write a story, a novel where there
was not a lot of conversation. I wanted to tell
the story with a lot of description, and so that's
kind of what I did, kind of John Steinbeck, Kennery
(01:48):
Rowe sort of voiceover thing if I was doing a movie.
And out of that came Abbys wrote. Abby is a
character who is a middle aged woman, a recent widow.
She has three grown children, and they are interacting and
(02:14):
it kind of tells the story of each personality with
these four people, what they are doing, and a lot
about what they're thinking and feeling. By using this method
of getting away from a lot of conversation, I was
(02:36):
able to tell about what's the interior of the characters.
Speaker 2 (02:43):
Was that fun for you because, like you said, you
could really flush out their emotions. I love when you
said that about the emotions, because that's a whole different approach.
Then I said this, and you said that, and then
we went here and oh they were angry about this.
That had to be really and I've been poured out
of you that had to be really something that was
fun to write and super unique because you could really
(03:06):
develop the characters.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
It really was fun to write by being able to
get into the mind and the emotion of the characters.
They tell me what they are thinking and feeling and
I put.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
It down nice.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yes, it was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
To write nice. And it's interesting having read this and
processing what you're saying. It completely makes sense to me
because usually when we read and this is different about yours,
Like you talk about Shelling, they're Shelly. You talk about Margaret,
(03:49):
tell us about you know, we're gonna give everything away,
but tell us about Margaret. What's Margaret like?
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Margaret is a very small stature of person. She looks
different than her siblings, and her view of the world
is probably different than theirs. From infancy, She's grown up
in a particular family. She has a very strong connection
(04:21):
to her father, and as most first child siblings, she
feels distant from her mother. She loves her, but there's
a distance in there. But she's a very strong character,
even though she's a tiny person. She's one of those
(04:43):
little people that you might meet in your life who
can really do a lot of tough business.
Speaker 2 (04:51):
Boy, so agree. I like that description. I so agree
with that. I've met a few of those people, absolutely,
and I have a few fabulous, you know, relatives that
I would describe when relatives in a good way because
they didn't take charge. They weren't evil awful, they stepped
up and people respected that and it didn't matter their stature.
So I love that description. And you know, the book
(05:13):
is Abby's wrote, and I'm gonna give people just a
little taste here. Abby woke up early, early enough that
she had enough time to drink a cup of coffee
and ponder what to do next before she picked up
her daughter. She'd been able to discern that they probably
both needed to go home. Margaret may not want to,
(05:35):
or she may have difficulty getting time off from work,
but Abby would broach this subject and see what happened
from there, and what I liked you talk about conversations
with the other two children. Told her that they had
been talking and were trying to put pieces together. Margaret
was a beautiful baby whose mother had practically who had
(05:57):
died practically in childbirth. So like you say, how you're
really telling us about who they are and what's happening
with them? Why did you say Abby's Road? Why did
you pick Abby?
Speaker 3 (06:14):
The character told me what her name was, and she'd
been running around in my head for almost two years
before I finally wrote her. But her name was always
Abby right from the very beginning. And I don't know,
probably because I'm a Beatles era human being. Abby's wrote
(06:36):
springs automatically to mind. And I was always afraidable if
I call it that, it's going to be some kind
of infringement. I don't want to get in trouble, but
it's what it is.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Yeah, no infringement. You're allowed to do that. So it's
interesting in talking about Abby's Road and taking a different
direction in this and really, like I keep using the
word flushing out, but really help the characters. That makes
us get attached. I think to certain characters, when people
read the book, what do you hope they take away?
(07:08):
Somebody says, I'm going to read this novel. When they
read it, what do you what do you hope they
walk away with when they finish the last page?
Speaker 3 (07:17):
That we can be given a tough life, we can
have a rough road ahead of us. But Abby never
becomes mean, She never becomes angry at how her life
has been. And it's the last statement that she makes
(07:39):
in the book so far. I do have a sequel coming,
you do, or I'm going to tell you yes, I'm
going to take these characters a little further. They won't
let me go, so I've got to write this.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I will chant that. Yeah, I love that, so that
you know, you get involved in the story. You're not, Oh,
I wonder what would happen in the future. And that's
good writing when somebody's reading the novel and then they
get to the end of it and say, wow, I
need something else. I want to see what else happens
in the future. And that's why they're not letting you go,
is what I'm surmising. You know, you and I talked
(08:16):
off the air and we talked about life in Oklahoma,
and we talked about farming in Oklahoma and what that
was like. And for some people they can in this
audience and watching this, they can relate to that. But
would you've ever thought farming in Oklahoma would have led
you to this incredible writing career because you've written several
(08:37):
books and now you've got another one rattling around.
Speaker 3 (08:43):
No. But I think maybe I'm a little bit like Abby.
I think I don't choose my life. I think it
happens to me.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
Oh, you let And so it unfolds, It just.
Speaker 3 (08:57):
Unfolds before me, and it's like, well, what are you
going to make of this? What are you going to
do with this?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
And in doing that and leading us to the first
book you wrote, tell us about the first book you
ever wrote and what was the inspiration for that.
Speaker 3 (09:17):
The first book I ever wrote was If God Is
a Woman? Who Am I? And this was a it's
a compilation of some poetry and a couple of short
stories that I wrote during the work that I was
doing for I think it was my master's degree. And again,
(09:44):
this was something where it just pushed me to create.
And I created this and almost simultaneously had The Hidden
Hidden Treasure of Calumet, which is a biography of a
(10:08):
very interesting little Catholic church where I'm a member, and
there was a particular priest who really encouraged me to
write this, and actually I published this one and they
If God is a Woman? Who Am I? At the
same time.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Wow, So they.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Originally came out together. Oh they're very different genres, they're
still the same.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Tell Us about Calumet what was what's that like?
Speaker 3 (10:41):
Calumet is a little tiny town about I read somewhere
once that they've never had a population of more than
four hundred people in the actual town. There's not much
left of it anymore. There's you know, the usual couple
of gas stations and a convenience store. There were restaurants.
(11:03):
I think there is a restaurant there again. There's a bank,
and there's a school goes all the way from kindergarten
to high school, good school. And there's five churches, which
is very typical for Oklahoma. You'll have a little tiny
town and have all kinds of churches there.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Right, because you from other places, right?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Oh yeah, yeah, the farmers all you know, the people.
There's only four hundred people in the actual town, but
there's all these farms out here, and in Oklahoma, about
every one hundred and sixty acres belongs to another family.
And so we have all these families that have known
each other, grown up together all their lives. It's kind
(11:49):
of kind of cool.
Speaker 2 (11:51):
I was going to say that, what a unique thing,
because so often now we find ourselves moving and shifting
into different worlds and different populations. You grow up here,
you go to school here, you marry someone here, or
you're single and you're traveling around for your job, and
there has to be I don't know what it is.
Maybe it's grounding, or it's the comfort in knowing there
(12:14):
are people who actually know you. Has that been a
good feeling.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
It's a kind of a good feeling. But it's a
little disconcerting sometimes because people I'm not from here. I'm
from Kansas, born and raised there, but left. You know,
it's as soon as I could, I got away. But
then I come here and eventually marry this man who
(12:41):
is a fourth generation farmer on this piece of land,
and so people that we go to church with will
have known him from the time he was born.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (12:53):
They know things about him that I.
Speaker 2 (12:55):
Had no idea.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Sometimes it's really funny and sometimes it's kind of old.
I didn't know it could be like that.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
I so understand that. Wow. And then life on the farm,
what's life on the farm?
Speaker 3 (13:09):
Like? It's always busy. There is always something that needs
to be done. There's always another piece of equipment that's broken.
My husband right now is out sewing wheat. This morning,
he was working cattle. He had to get in the
(13:30):
calves and get them ready to eventually be sold. We'll
sell in a couple of months the calves because we
do cow calf pears. So we have cows and we
have maybe calves right now, and then we have bulls.
Have to manage all those little little eiffers and so forth.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Yeah, all the animals. So for you in writing the book,
like Abby's wrote, as we come back to that, the
novel and different characters in the book and how it
poured out of you, is any of the inspiration do
you think from anything around you? Does anything around you
kind of come into some of your books?
Speaker 3 (14:14):
For these characters, each one of them has a little
bit of some portion of my life because I'm really old.
I'm seventy eight now, and so i can look back
on my life and see that I've lived in five
year increments. I mean, my husband and I've been married
(14:37):
for thirty five years, but within that there been five
years for school, five years for this kind of job,
five years. Somehow at the end of that five years.
Speaker 2 (14:49):
I move on, which maybe other people have the similar
thing with blocks of time might be longer, it might
be shorter, but it's interesting to look back at that
by the way, you're not old seventy eight? Are you
kidding me? That is not old? Well, we certainly can't
wait for your next book to come out, the sequel
Abby's wrote, and all the other great books you told
(15:10):
us about you can get on Amazon, Barnes, Noble, wherever
great books are sold. And Wow, just having this conversation
with you just I think is wonderful and spurs on
I hope for other people the idea that you always
have the ability because I see you as that person
to do to do what it is wherever life takes you.
(15:31):
You can adapt, you can put that puzzle together. And
that's kind of the sense I got from your book
and the characters and their strength.
Speaker 3 (15:40):
Great. Well, there is one other book, okay, Secrets in
the Desert. This is my big novel that I wrote
based on a little story I did for the Master's programming.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
And tell us about that book, Secrets in the Desert.
Speaker 3 (15:58):
Secrets in the Desert is a conver between ten professors
out of college.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
He's a bored.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Professor looking for something new, and she is a slightly
younger professor who's just come back from Europe and North Africa.
She'd been on a archaeological dig and all of the
they sit together and she tells him her story of
(16:31):
the last year. Now she traveled around Europe. She met
up with a distant mother that mother passed away, and
it sort of talks about a lot of the adventures
that she had and how he's going to help her
write a book.
Speaker 2 (16:52):
Wow. Interesting and so some of that I'm sure came
about because of where you were, right. Did that kind
of inspire you?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
It did. Inspiration for the two professors at a university
was my own experience of going to university to get
my doctoral degree.
Speaker 2 (17:09):
So nice, Yes, I like that. Tell everybody what your
doctoral degree is in.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
I have a Doctor of Ministry degree in spiritual direction.
Speaker 2 (17:20):
Wow, and that has that has I've here, I hear
that can be really tough to get. So it takes
a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Yes, but my children were almost grown or totally grown,
and it's pretty boring on the farm, and the opportunities
were there. I'm so appreciative of the technological things that
we have now. You don't have to always go to
another building or another town or another room in order
(17:53):
to receive the education that that you feel like you
can do.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Boy, isn't that the truth? Well, like I said before,
we can't wait to see what happens next with you.
So interesting all of these various books, and you can
get them at any place where books are sold. For sure.
I'll tell you I really enjoyed Abby's wrote I read
it cover to cover, and that says something as busy
as I am. I did it and I just could
not put it down. You kept me up, Danna Schweitzer,
(18:20):
until four in the morning, finishing that book one night's
that's high praise for you. So thank you so much
for joining us.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Uh, thank you
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