Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon

Welcome back. This week we explore time and the tests of it.  Also the gifts of faith and deep roots to help make the navigation of life not just bearable, but a fun exploration of self, service, and community.  A note: this conversation was recorded with my parents' full knowledge and participation, and published with their approval. Their voices, their stories, their words. My unending grat...

Imperfectly finding my voice and comfort, while exploring what it might take for us all to do so, welcome back to episode five of Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon. This is a one-week pause on the multi-part conversation with my parents, for a foundational reflection on the work of understanding and the experience of growing up curious.  Thank you for joining me at the salon! Here's to more...

Before they were Mom and Dad, they were people. People with places, rhythms, rules, and a feeling they carried from the homes they were raised in, into the home they built together. This is Part One of a four-part conversation with my parents, Lynda and Allen Greene, on the places that shaped them, the culture of their households growing up, and the first home they made together as a couple. The r...

This episode is an invitation into memory and learning to navigate the world as it shifts. To sit, to be with, to get to know. That takes time. Thank you for giving me yours. A note: you will hear slip-ups in this episode. This is the practice of not being perfect and of letting the conversation be what it is. Always Welcome is a living, breathing thing. Thank you for your grace and being with me...

This is where it starts. In the first full episode of Always Welcome: A Social Arts Salon, Mallorie Kris Greene Kristoffersen arrives with her whole self -- the skin on her face, the voice that got too loud, the whisper she conditioned herself into, and the invitation back to full volume. This episode is dedicated to her grandmother, Sylvia Ann Cofield, and to all the conversations we never got to...

Pull up a chair -- or take a walk with me. Always Welcome is a community podcast rooted in Howard County, Maryland. Each episode, host Mallorie Kris Greene Kristoffersen journeys across the county connecting with social practitioners, business owners, and local residents -- asking the question at the heart of it all: what does belonging and community mean for you? Recorded at Lake Elkhorn, Columbi...