Linda Harkey is an award-winning children’s book author, with 13 books published to date, including The Budding Staff, Desert Friends, The Great Animal Escape, and her newest release, The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy.
Linda loves dogs and loves teaching children. Her experiences as a mother, school teacher, volunteer docent and hunting dog owner have inspired her to write the award-winning children’s book series, Hickory Doc’s Tales.
For over 22 years she diligently worked as a volunteer docent at two outstanding museums in Oklahoma – The National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City and Gilcrease Museum (Thomas Gilcrease Institute of American History and Art) in Tulsa. During her tenure, she helped develop curricula for children’s programs and gave countless presentations to children both at the museums and local schools.
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Books mentioned in this episode: Desert Friends, Chatty The Hen Pheasant, The Case of the Missing Pink Piggy, The Great Animal Escape
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Linda’s upcoming book: The Curious Friendship of Patch and Barney
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The Space Between Time, Lucinda’s novel
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Classic Cinema With the Sage Sisters
Stories are a huge part of the way humans communicate with each other. Celeste and I think all stories are allegories where we can learn all kinds of important things, not the least of which is how to understand ourselves and others better. The best stories can be told over and over from one generation to the next and still teach great lessons. Emotional Intelligence and critical thinking are two of those lessons. Celeste and I think there are many classic movies that show us the progression of where humanity is today and we want to share them with you.
Shakespeare was right, “All the world is a stage and all the men and women merely players.” The stories we tell and consume are us trying to figure out who we are, why we’re here, and the kind of world we want to live in.
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