Hi! I live in Hamilton, Ontario , Canada, am in my early 40’s, but have been following you since i was in my early 20’s, and took great interest im your npr program years ago, and followed your journalistic career and broadcasting for some two decades. I always took pleasure in your interviews both from online streaming, or the occasionally trip to Sault Ste. Marie ontario from hamilton(where i live, just west of Toronto ) to visit extended family, as one of the options for getting there involves driving into the us and going through michigan, (not a route i took often, as i always opted for gifting Toronto traffic instead lol) but your program was a joy to listen to on this trips nonetheless.)
I look forward to seeing your next adventures and projects on substack and hearing your thoughts on the ongoing horror of the trump administration 2.0, fending him off form annexing my country canada, and what going forward this will mean for the preservation of democracy and the illiberal world order as its known in its present day form. Good luck, Diane , and thank you for all the wonderful years of entertaining your loyal legions of fans and listeners!
Thank you David for you warm and caring comments. I do plan to have guests on my Substack Platform to comment on how our beautiful countries are being affected by this new administration. I’ll be up soon. Having just left my radio station after 52 years, I’m taking a little breather before beginning this new adventure.
I'm currently reading Maybe you should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. The best book I read last year was The Women, so great! Looking forward to your substack submissions!
The best book I've read in a long time is Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. It's a fascinating and moving account of her unexpected adoption of a wild hare during the Covid pandemic. It is also a meditation on trust and our relationship with the natural world. The book provided me with a respite from the stress of our world today.
It’s great to see you here, Diane. Im reading THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP by Sarah Kenzior. She includes her knowledge and love of American history, her expertise re oligarchies, her love for her family and for the US, and gorgeous, poetic, striking prose.
I started listening to you back in 2008 when I was a college student working a summer job for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. I spent my days driving around the state setting traps to catch the emerald ash borer—which meant a lot of windshield time. Your voice was a constant in those long drives, and I’ve been a loyal listener ever since.
I’m currently reading How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde. I missed the daily show when it became a weekly podcast… then I came to love the weekly podcast. And now that it’s wrapping up, I’m definitely sad—but I’m so grateful for everything you’ve shared over the years and glad I can still follow along here.
I enjoy listening to memoirs and biographies in the form of audiobooks as my eyesight is not as good as it used to be. I actually am watching reruns of the oldWhat's My Line television show from the 1950s and 60s. I am seeing historical leaders that I hadn't heard of and then I'm interested in reading about them. And one of the panelists was Bennett Cerf, who was the co-founder and publisher at Rsndom House. So I've discovered that he has an aubiography or memoir and I'm now going to start listening to that. I'm very interested in books and publishing. I'm also listening to the memoir by Amanda Knox called Free, about her stay in jail in Italy when she was accused of killing a roommate. She was jailed for years and she was innocent. She was the American studying in Italy who didn't even understand Italian or what the police were saying to her. It is a very good book. And I'm looking forward to your last book club with public radio because that's also a true story. I very much enjoyed your book club discussion with Scott Turow and one with Amy Tan and one with Isabel Allende. I love education and learning. And I Interested in mindfulness and meditation. I have always thought Malcolm Gladwell and his books were fascinating.
I am very excited to continue to learn from and "see" and hear you on this new platform, Diane- and hope you are indeed enjoying a bit of a so well-deserved rest/time for fun and celebration of your amazing career on public radio. Thank you so much. This is Melissa Bentley in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am unfamiliar with Substack, so that information might already show up when I post this, forgive the repition if so.
I miss your podcast already and so happy you’re on Substack! Thank you for all your years of incredible interviews on the most important issues. I’ve learned so much from you over the years and am so grateful for everything you’ve done. ♥️💙
Hello Ms.Rhem. Firstly thank you for years of no B.S. insight you provided on NPR. You were a constant during my working years traveling as I'd seek out the local NPR station wherever I happened to be. I heard your last interview on 1-A I believe where you asked for recommendations of books. I'd like to recommend a book of a real life experience called " Gracies Crossing", a moving story of losing a beloved pet and the spiritual events following that loss. It's an easy moderately short read thst would lend itself well to a discussion in the type of program suited especially for your type of deep discussion interviews. Thank you and my very best of luck in this new part of your life. Hello to Bella!
Hi Diane. I’m so excited you are on Substack! I have listened to you for years on WAMU and on your podcast. You have helped me understand and cope with so many situations and issues. Thank you.
I am in six bookclubs (yes, it’s hard to keep up sometimes) and am interested in what you are reading. Currently I am enjoying War and Peace, Winter’s Heart (Book 9 in The Wheel of Time series), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, James by Percival Everett, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and several Lord Peter stories by Dorothy L Sayers.
Hi! I live in Hamilton, Ontario , Canada, am in my early 40’s, but have been following you since i was in my early 20’s, and took great interest im your npr program years ago, and followed your journalistic career and broadcasting for some two decades. I always took pleasure in your interviews both from online streaming, or the occasionally trip to Sault Ste. Marie ontario from hamilton(where i live, just west of Toronto ) to visit extended family, as one of the options for getting there involves driving into the us and going through michigan, (not a route i took often, as i always opted for gifting Toronto traffic instead lol) but your program was a joy to listen to on this trips nonetheless.)
I look forward to seeing your next adventures and projects on substack and hearing your thoughts on the ongoing horror of the trump administration 2.0, fending him off form annexing my country canada, and what going forward this will mean for the preservation of democracy and the illiberal world order as its known in its present day form. Good luck, Diane , and thank you for all the wonderful years of entertaining your loyal legions of fans and listeners!
Thank you David for you warm and caring comments. I do plan to have guests on my Substack Platform to comment on how our beautiful countries are being affected by this new administration. I’ll be up soon. Having just left my radio station after 52 years, I’m taking a little breather before beginning this new adventure.
Best to you! Diane
Amen! 🙂
How to Raise Kind Kids by thomas lickona. We have to do more for this next generation. Thank you for coming to Substack. ❤️💯
I'm currently reading Maybe you should Talk to Someone by Lori Gottlieb. The best book I read last year was The Women, so great! Looking forward to your substack submissions!
The best book I've read in a long time is Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. It's a fascinating and moving account of her unexpected adoption of a wild hare during the Covid pandemic. It is also a meditation on trust and our relationship with the natural world. The book provided me with a respite from the stress of our world today.
It’s great to see you here, Diane. Im reading THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP by Sarah Kenzior. She includes her knowledge and love of American history, her expertise re oligarchies, her love for her family and for the US, and gorgeous, poetic, striking prose.
And honesty. Refreshing.
I started listening to you back in 2008 when I was a college student working a summer job for the Indiana Department of Natural Resources. I spent my days driving around the state setting traps to catch the emerald ash borer—which meant a lot of windshield time. Your voice was a constant in those long drives, and I’ve been a loyal listener ever since.
I’m currently reading How We Learn to Be Brave by Mariann Edgar Budde. I missed the daily show when it became a weekly podcast… then I came to love the weekly podcast. And now that it’s wrapping up, I’m definitely sad—but I’m so grateful for everything you’ve shared over the years and glad I can still follow along here.
I enjoy listening to memoirs and biographies in the form of audiobooks as my eyesight is not as good as it used to be. I actually am watching reruns of the oldWhat's My Line television show from the 1950s and 60s. I am seeing historical leaders that I hadn't heard of and then I'm interested in reading about them. And one of the panelists was Bennett Cerf, who was the co-founder and publisher at Rsndom House. So I've discovered that he has an aubiography or memoir and I'm now going to start listening to that. I'm very interested in books and publishing. I'm also listening to the memoir by Amanda Knox called Free, about her stay in jail in Italy when she was accused of killing a roommate. She was jailed for years and she was innocent. She was the American studying in Italy who didn't even understand Italian or what the police were saying to her. It is a very good book. And I'm looking forward to your last book club with public radio because that's also a true story. I very much enjoyed your book club discussion with Scott Turow and one with Amy Tan and one with Isabel Allende. I love education and learning. And I Interested in mindfulness and meditation. I have always thought Malcolm Gladwell and his books were fascinating.
I’m reading Priya Parker’s “The Art of Gathering” and listening to Jan Karon’s “Somewhere Safe with Somebody Good.”
I am very excited to continue to learn from and "see" and hear you on this new platform, Diane- and hope you are indeed enjoying a bit of a so well-deserved rest/time for fun and celebration of your amazing career on public radio. Thank you so much. This is Melissa Bentley in Salt Lake City, Utah. I am unfamiliar with Substack, so that information might already show up when I post this, forgive the repition if so.
repetition I mean
I miss your podcast already and so happy you’re on Substack! Thank you for all your years of incredible interviews on the most important issues. I’ve learned so much from you over the years and am so grateful for everything you’ve done. ♥️💙
Where are your posts? It’s May 10 and I’ve been looking every day.
Wonderful news. Love this woman.
Master slave, husband wife
Hello Ms.Rhem. Firstly thank you for years of no B.S. insight you provided on NPR. You were a constant during my working years traveling as I'd seek out the local NPR station wherever I happened to be. I heard your last interview on 1-A I believe where you asked for recommendations of books. I'd like to recommend a book of a real life experience called " Gracies Crossing", a moving story of losing a beloved pet and the spiritual events following that loss. It's an easy moderately short read thst would lend itself well to a discussion in the type of program suited especially for your type of deep discussion interviews. Thank you and my very best of luck in this new part of your life. Hello to Bella!
MADD Adam trilogy by Margaret Atwood.
Hi Diane. I’m so excited you are on Substack! I have listened to you for years on WAMU and on your podcast. You have helped me understand and cope with so many situations and issues. Thank you.
I am in six bookclubs (yes, it’s hard to keep up sometimes) and am interested in what you are reading. Currently I am enjoying War and Peace, Winter’s Heart (Book 9 in The Wheel of Time series), Lady Chatterley’s Lover, James by Percival Everett, The Red and the Black by Stendhal, and several Lord Peter stories by Dorothy L Sayers.
Welcome to Substack.