Arts & Letters Radio for HDW's 3rd Anniversary

We have just passed the three-year launch anniversary of The Hospice Doctor’s Widow: A Journal. As with most anniversaries, it seems like just yesterday in one moment, and it feels like forever ago in another that we were sipping Obituary Cocktails and launching this unlikely book. 

During one of those early days of the book’s existence (before the pandemic shut everything down), I sat in the studios of KUAR, our local Central Arkansas NPR station, and spoke with J. Bradley Minnick for his award-winning radio show and podcast, Arts & Letters Radio. This was my first interview about the book, and I was so nervous. Brad and his wife/production partner, Mary Ellen Kubit, made it easy to talk about the fact that I had allowed my very personal art journal about the saddest time in my life to become a published book. Wah! 

Anyway, I cannot think of a better way to celebrate the third birthday of HDW:AJ than with an Arts & Letters Radio episode based on that interview. You can listen to it in Central Arkansas by turning your radio dial to 89.1 FM KUAR on Friday, 3/10, at 7:00 pm CST, or stream it on ualrpublicradio.org. The program will repeat on Sunday, 3/12, at 9:00 pm CST. After that, it will be posted to a dozen different podcast platforms to listen to from anywhere in the world. 

Arts & Letters Radio was #12 on NPR’s Top 25 Arts Podcasts list in 2022, so add them to your subscription list if you have not yet checked out the show.

I am eager and anxious to hear the episode. Brad’s work is outstanding, so I have no doubt it will be powerful. For those who personally knew my late husband, Bob Lehmberg, please know that his voice will be featured from the Gathering Hope Life Review he recorded about a year and a half before he died.