Stories From Women Who Walk

Hello to you listening in Hackensack, New Jersey ! 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’m a gardener in the Pacific Northwest. Right now I have what’s called a “winter-looking garden.” The cherry trees, maples, and plants are mostly brown, not at all looking like what I expect will be fl...

Hello to you listening in Houston, Texas ! 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   While I am not a constituent of the 77-year old Democratic Congressman Al Green of Texas , I am certainly a Fan Girl! The point isn’t whether you agree or not with his intentional decision to tell "47" tha...

Hello to you listening in Eugene, Oregon ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Story Prompt Friday with your host, Diane Wyzga. In various conversations lately I've been talking about being broken or, at least being cracked. We are cracked. We complicate being cracked by creating inner stories about our worthiness while trying to ignore our pain and hide our flaws....

Hello to you listening in Jasper, Indiana ! 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.  In the early 1990s a cellist in Sarejevo, Vedran Smajlovic , went out into the square when the bombs were dropping and started playing his cello. A journalist asked him, " Why are you out here playing you...

Hello to you listening here, there and everywhere! 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. My dear friend, colleague, and fellow podcaster Charlene Norman, the voice behind The 5Cs podcast sent me a post on LinkedIn written by Terry Szuplat (Obama speechwriter 2009-17) and founder Global...

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 Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. Here on Whidbey Island and throughout all of the Great State of Washington we are ever-indebted to the First Nations peoples who lived on this land for thousands of years. Those of us who pay attention to thei...

Hello to you listening all over the world, and especially Ukranians here and abroad.  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.   Feeling completely broken down after having witnessed the world-wide-televised brutality by our so-called leaders shamefully berating President Zelensky and, by...

Hello to you listening in Perth, Australia ! 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.     Recently I read a blog post by my friend and colleague Leanne Gordon. Leanne's Drip by Drop blog posts are designed to be “ A daily dose of thinking helping you to make change happen in your work and l...

Hello to you listening in Union County, Ohio ! 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. Oftentimes we’re stuck solving a problem because we just don’t know where to begin. I have an idea. 4 problem-solving words: Result + Reach + Resistance + Resources. Result :  Start at the end of the st...

Hello to you listening in Ukraine ! 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.   How do colds spread? They most often spread through droplets of fluid from an infected person sneezing or coughing. These droplets can enter your body through breathing them in or touching a contaminated surfac...

Hello to you listening in Paris, France ! 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. As many of you know I’m engaged in a year-long course based on Stephen Levine’s well known book, A Year to Live . I think I have some 326 more days of discovering how to live this year as if it were my last. Iro...

Hello to you listening in Hamburg, Germany ! 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.   We are living in a time of historic upheaval. But what if this currently confusing, chaotic, confounding, cultural churn is stumbling toward change that reveals the hidden roots of social injustice for...

Hello to you Patrice (long-time follower and supporter)  listening in Big Bear, California ! 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. “ Happiness is pretty simple: someone to love, something to do, something to look forward to .” [Rita Mae Brown, Hiss of Death] Said another way, “ The three...

Hello to you listening all around the world! 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! The other day my dear friend Paul in Inver Grove, Minnesota asked me if I threw a dart at a map on the wall to come up with my listener location shout out. Absolutely not!   My podcast is almost 5 years o...

Hello to you listening in Camano Island, 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. Let’s be perfectly clear. Fascism is here. It feels like we are shoveling sand against an incoming tide. It feels like we have little plastic shovels while the other guys have earth movers. I g...

Hello to you listening in Lyons, Colorado ! 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. Do these times feel dark? They should because they are. However, " In our darkest moments, we don't need solutions or advice. What we yearn for is simply human connection—a quiet presence, a gentle touch. Thes...

Hello to you listening in Desert Hot Springs, California ! 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 a friend said that she was struggling because the job she had she didn’t want, the job she wanted she didn’t get, so she felt like a failure. Is there an alternative? What if we loo...

Hello to you listening in Torremolinos, Spain ! 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. It seems like only yesterday the holiday tune All I Want for Christmas was looping on play lists. Almost two months later I’ve decided what I want for Valentine’s Day. No, more than a day! This is how I...

Hello to you listening in Fredricton, NB, Canada ! 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. Maybe like me you have a robust imagination that works overtime to figure out all possible bridges that might be crossed in the future and how to cross them. The “ what if ” worries. And then I rem...

Hello to you listening in Shrewsbury, UK ! 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. “ It doesn’t matter how long you have forgotten, only how soon you remember .” (Buddha) We don’t often recall our memories with any reliable accuracy. But that’s okay. Sharing our stories is not about nail...

Hello to you listening in Berlin, Germany ! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is Stories From Women Who Walk with 60 Seconds (& a bit more) for Time Out Tuesday and your host, Diane Wyzga. This lovely poem you’re about to hear was written in Portugese by Ricardo Gondim Rodrigues, a Brazilian theologian and progressive pastor. The English translation and title (“ My Soul Has a Hat...

Hello to you listening in Helsinki, Finland ! 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. These days it takes more than the usual effort to stop trying to burst people into flames with my mind.   What’s going on? What isn’t? The craziness is triggering our uncertainties, raising our blood pre...

Hello to you listening in Curitiba, Brazil ! 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.  Here on our breathtakingly beautiful, semi-rural island  accessible only by Deception Pass Bridge to the north or the ferry to the south we may tend to think we live in a Pacific Northwest bubble. But we...

Hello to you listening in Ooltewah, Tennessee ! Ooltewah Pronunciation Guide 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. Maybe like me you look at the analytics, downloads, and likes; they’re not measuring up to what you would like. You ask yourself: What am I doing wrong? What am I missing?...

Hello to you listening around the world! Coming to you from Whidbey Island, Washington this is 60 Seconds for Wednesdays on Whidbey with your host Diane Wyzga. About a block from my library or a block from the post office sits a house on a corner. Propped against this house I saw a very large sheet of plywood. Spray-painted in large black letters were these words: Kill Lawyers - Not Cops .     Put...