Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Svendborg, Sweden ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. After almost 5 years and over 1,250 podcast episodes on the airwaves what have I learned in another year’s worth of podcasting? This much I know: I write to be heard. I believe in the music of the spoken wor...

Hello to you listening in Cairo, Eqypt ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. “ What if we could accept periods of rest? “Being” is as essential as “doing”. Enjoy life in its different phases, in its changing colours and moods. Watch the perfect pattern unfold and develop. It is not wh...

Hello to you listening in Mobile, Alabama ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga   Once in a land far away there was a farmer. His most treasured possession was a fine stallion. Oh, said the neighbors: what good fortune! Perhaps, said the farmer. One night the stallion ran off in a storm...

Hello to you listening in Casablanca, Morocco ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently, one of my global listeners wrote say “ Thank You ” for continuing to produce this podcast. I’m sharing this unexpected delight with you to say “ Thank you! ” from down here on the knees of my...

Hello to you listening where your feet touch the ground!   Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey Christmas Day and your host, Diane Wyzga.     Years ago I learned to tell this story by heart because it became extra special to me when I was dating a fellow named Alan who took me on a cross-country skiing weekend a...

Hello, to you listening in Parramatta, Australia ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. No matter who you are, where you are, and how you are celebrating (or not) the various end-of-year holidays, this remains - if we make it so - the Season of Love. Let’s be of Love a little more careful...

Hello to you listening in Estacada, Oregon ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently I had the privilege of sharing the mic with my friend and colleague, Deborah Kevin of STORYTELLHER podcast to delve into the profound connections between our personal stories, values, and identit...

Hello to you listening in The Bronx, New York City, New York ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. There are promises we make and promises we break; but for those promises we keep there are untold joys we could not have imagined. As in this story. Settle in to listen. This could happen...

Hello to you listening in Lake Villa, Illinois ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more) for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. As the old ones say, “ If we are not grateful for what we have in this present moment, what makes us think we will be happy with more ?”   Maybe it’s true and maybe it isn’t but long...

Hello to you listening in Lake Chelan, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga.   Unpacking boxes of Christmas decorations the other day I came upon a faded red folder I had first received in early December of my freshman year when I was away at college. It held faded multi-c...

Hello to you listening in Madrid, Spain ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. It’s that time of year when it feels like the hurrier we go the behinder we get. I have a solution for you. For just a moment let’s breathe and practice keeping still with Pablo Neruda .  KEEPING QUIET   Now we...

Hello to you listening in Millinocket, Maine ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday. In 1955 she sewed a sack out of old denim and stuffed it with “ a blanket, a plastic shower sheet, a cup, a canteen and baby bottle for water, a small pot, a spoon, a Swiss Army knife, a first-aid kit, pins, flashlight, a piece of rope, a raincoat, a warm coat,...

Hello to you listening in Yamaguchi, Japan ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and closer to 9 minutes) for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe it’s true and maybe it isn’t, but long ago and far away there lived a fisherman and his wife. ...... For more, tune in to listen - this could happen to you.   Story Prompt :...

Hello to you listening in Skagit Valley, Washington !   Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Decades ago when I was in college in New England and mom was a teacher in New Jersey she would mail items of interest, comic strips, bits of this and that she expected I might enjoy. I still ha...

Hello to you listening in Morden, Manitoba Canada ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (and a bit more)for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga It’s been years and years but I’ve never forgotten that moment in time when my baby brother, Paul and I were in the kitchen washing up the dishes after Easter Sunday dinner at the f...

Hello to you listening in Santiago, Chile, S. America ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I cobbled together a short list of questions to muse upon as I go walking for the hope, comfort and healing the answers might reveal to me.  Perhaps they would be of use to you: 1. What dreams did...

Hello to you listening in Warsaw, Poland ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Recently, I had the pleasure of sharing the mic with my Canadian friend and colleague Beverley Glazer of Reinvent Impossible, Inc . who helps “ woman over 50 discover their true purpose, to reinvent themsel...

Hello to you listening in Limassol, Republic of Cyprus ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. My friend and colleague SB Rawz writes a wonderful column in Substack, DeathnStuff .  Recently she suggested that her readers: Take a moment to answer a question and tuck your response somewher...

Hello to you listening in The Hague, the Netherlands ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Who is Saint Nicholas? Little is known about the historical Saint Nicholas who was born during the third century in the village of Patara in Asia Minor on what is now the southern coast of Turke...

Hello to you listening in the Great State of Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga Orcas are an integral part of my life on Whidbey, in particular the Southern resident orcas pods. Our Langley Whale Center  celebrates and shares the lives of orcas, as well as gray whales, h...

Hello to you listening in Stockholm, Sweden ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. I have walked, bathed and rested in many forests. Some with trees 300 or 400 years old. Others, less mature. Trees are wise in ways that can’t be taught. As mortals perhaps the best we can do is wander among...

Hello to you listening in Thune, Switzerland ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Motivate Your Monday and your host, Diane Wyzga. If you know me you know that “ Each One Lift One ” is the way I roll because when we help each other, we help all of us. My long-time friend and colleague, Susanne Mueller, can run circles around many o...

Hello to you listening in McHenry, Illinois ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Maybe it’s true and maybe it isn’t but once there was a corrupt politician in the 1920's named John A. McCarthy; but he was known as Fishhooks McCarthy. He lived and worked on the Lower East Side of New Y...

Hello to you listening in Geneseo, New York ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Thoughts on Thanksgiving Thursday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Here in the US Thanksgiving Day is a designated holiday. I am deeply thankful for you and each of you on this podcast journey of almost 5 years. Together we have shared so many intersecting...

Hello to you listening in Sumner, Washington ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey and your host, Diane Wyzga. If this is the day before Thanksgiving I’m elbow deep in boxes of pumpkin pies cutting and boxing slices for upwards of 700 turkey dinners being prepared by 200 Mobile Turkey Unit volunteers who have b...