December 2015

It’s “National Adopt a Senior Dog Month” and we are joined today by Today.com writer, editor, and producer Laura Coffey to celebrate the grand times that can be had with shelter dogs past the age of puppyhood with her book My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts

With more data coming out about the link between lifestyle and health, we are in need of simple and memorable strategies for increased energy and vibrancy. In Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons from the Slopes, certified nutritional counselor Kathryn Kemp Guylay presents stories and experiences from her personal life, which often offers a hilarious backdrop for studying wellness and life lessons.

Enjoy this encore broadcast of Conversations Live! Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like us on Facebook and follow Vicki on Twitter for exclusive updates and contests!

My Old Dog: Rescued Pets with Remarkable Second Acts shares success stories that show how blissful retirement can be for older dogs who get rescued, and how senior dog adoption can be a life-changing event for the humans who do the rescuing. Author Laura Coffey is a longtime writer, editor, and producer for TODAY.com, the website of NBC’s TODAY show. An award-winning journalist with more than two decades of experience, Laura has written and edited hundreds of high-profile human-interest stories.

Certified nutritional counselor Kathryn Kemp Guylay has conjured up a recipe for more energy and a more vibrant life in Mountain Mantras: Wellness and Life Lessons from the Slopes. She uses her own personal experiences as a backdrop to lessons that can ultimately help anyone with 6 mantras that will overcome life’s obstacles. As the founder and executive director of Nurture, Kathryn continues to provide free nutrition and wellness education and services to children and families, and as a principal of Healthy Solutions of Sun Valley, Kathryn brings wellness solutions to organizations and corporations through speaking engagements and workshops. She also hosts her own bi-weekly radio show on wellness topics.

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The deadline for Christmas shopping is near, but never fear, Conversations Live is here! Today Vicki will share some gift ideas for the creatives in your life… the writers, designers, and artists who might like something a little more eclectic. And we would be remiss to leave out our furry friends, so joining us today is award-winning animal behaviorist Bryan Bailey (aka The Wolf Whisperer) with the best gift you can give your canine companion this holiday season… peace of mind.

And finally, the latest in the best-selling fact-tastic Bathroom Reader series is here from Uncle John. In this, the 28th volume, you can enjoy over 500 pages of absorbing mind-boggling facts and amazing trivia… conveniently split up into different lengths depending on your planned stay.

Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like us on Facebook and follow Vicki on Twitter for exclusive updates and contests!

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Today’s show will be a fun one featuring three guests who love what they do!

The American Heritage Dictionary has announced an update for 2015 introducing hundreds of new words. Executive Editor Steve Kleinedler joins Vicki today to discuss any “listicles” she may have made, while drinking his beverage using a “zarf” and doing his best to not “humblebrag.”

Sue Aikens lives a life of solitude, her address being a GPS coordinate 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle, her nearest neighbor being 300 miles away save for the dozens of Grizzlies that reside within a 10 mile radius. But being subject of National Geographic’s Life Below Zero has bought her story back to civilization. Find out why would someone who deliberately lives off the grid would allow a tv camera crew to invade her space.

Finally, cheesemonger Gordon Edgar is here to discuss Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese, a humorous and insightful and… wait for it… cheesy look at a staple of the nation’s diet.

Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like us on Facebook and follow Vicki on Twitter for exclusive updates and contests!

The American Heritage Dictionary recently announced it’s 2015 end of the year updates and revisions, and including are hundreds of new words and senses. Executive Editor Steve Kleinedler joins us to help differentiate between a bimibop and a glera, explain what a toe sock is, and why you should be worried about a doxx or a percutaneous coronary intervention!

Sue Aikens lives 197 miles north of the Arctic Circle at the Kavik River Camp, where nine months of the year she is the sole resident, with only a family of foxes and a retired sled dog to keep her company. She returns to Conversations Live today to give us an update from her life of solitude, and expand on her reasons for allowing the intrusion of a camera crew from National Geographic’s Life Below Zero to chronicle how she passes her days.

Cheddar: A Journey to the Heart of America’s Most Iconic Cheese by cheesemonger and author Gordon Edgar is a fun and engaging ramble through cheddar’s time in the US that looks to sate curious minds and hungry bodies with plenty to chew on and enjoy, from cheddar’s origin story to a road trip to the cheese’s American hotspots.

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Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers is informative, scholarly, and unabashedly nerdy. It is also an exceedingly fun read. Author Matt Kaplan leaves no mythical stone unturned, encompassing the magic our ancestors believed in and the magic we believe in today.

438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea is the new book from investigative journalist Jonathan Franklin chronicling the amazing true tale of fisherman Salvador Alvarenga, who cheated death as he survived on the open sea for longer than anyone in human history, inspiring the release of ‘The 33’ with Antonio Banderas.

Conversations Live with Vicki St. Clair airs each Monday at noon Pacific on KKNW 1150AM or 94.9FM HD. Like us on Facebook and follow Vicki on Twitter for exclusive updates and contests!

If you’ve ever been curious about elixirs of eternal life, fabled gateways to the underworld, the spells of witches that turn men into beasts or the oracles of ancient Greece, Matt Kaplan is your perfect armchair guide. Science of the Magical: From the Holy Grail to Love Potions to Superpowers considers everything from the Biblical parting of The Red Sea and Viking exploration to the science behind the mutants of X-Men, to new studies regarding autism and modern medical advancements prolonging human life. Matt Kaplan is a science correspondent with The Economist and has contributed weekly articles to its science and technology section for a decade. He has also written for National Geographic, Nature, and The New York Times. When not chained to a desk in England, he travels the world exploring our most cherished myths and legends.

Salvador Alvarenga and a mate went out for a two-day fishing trip, but a storm knocked out their boat’s motor and heavy winds blew them far from shore. Fourteen months later, Alvarenga washed up on a remote island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, near Australia. He had traveled more than 6,000 miles and survived by eating turtles, catching fish and maintaining an unbreakable will to survive. This amazing true tale is chronicled in Jonathan Franklin‘s 438 Days: An Extraordinary True Story of Survival at Sea. Franklin regularly reports for The Guardian, GQ, and Esquire, focusing on Latin America. He also works with the team at Retro Report producing documentaries broadcast by The New York Times.

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