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Desert Lady Diaries

Dawn Davis Voiceover and Podcaster

Desert Lady Diaries: 30-minute conversations with women who live in the desert. Find out why they came, what they do here and why they stay.

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DLD | Dawn Davis | Ep 165

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/11/16

In this final episode of the Desert Lady Diaries podcast, Susan Henry (Ep 146) steps in as host and queries Dawn about her first experience with desert, the inspiration for Desert Lady Diaries and her shoppe, Soul Connection. Born & raised in New Jersey, Dawn Davis was drawn to the desert after lengthy careers in banking, project management and media. After 14 years in the corporate scene, she spent more than 20 years as an actor, voiceover and producer. Dawn moved to the Mojave in the

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DLD | Kathy Goss | Ep 164

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/11/02

Raised on the east coast, Kathy didn’t see a desert until she’d moved to San Francisco in her college years. Taking bus trips down to beaches in Mexico, the desert felt like something to ‘get through’ in order to get to the beach. Back-packing in the Sierras brought Kathy closer to the Mojave. One day, driving through Darwin in search of a friend's place, she felt ‘eyes were on her’ from behind curtains as she drove through the town. Kathy passed broken down shacks and cars and wondered how

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DLD | Anne Lear | Ep 163

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/10/18

Anne Lear’s first experience with desert was a a young girl. Growing up in Los Angeles, Anne and her family made many trips to 29 Palms to visit her uncle, Bob Lear, a homesteader in the 1930’s. If Lear Avenue rings a bell, that road was named after Uncle Bob. This photo shows Anne, left, with Uncle Bob. In this episode we’ll first learn how it was that Anne’s uncle came to be living in 29 Palms, which resulted in Anne coming to retire in the desert. Anne says as a child, there was nothing

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DLD| Jenny Kane |Ep 162

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/10/05

Jenny was 10-years old when she first experienced the desert. Jenny's best friends mother was a Girl Scout leader who brought the girls out to Joshua Tree National Park to camp. Jennifer says, “I remember the wind – it was like a person, taking up space.” As an adult, Jennifer would visit the park to climb. In 2017 she wrote a dispatch about the history of the Joshua Tree National Park climbing community as part of The Mojave Project, a documentary and curatorial project led by artist Kim

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DLD| Barbara Gothard |Ep 161

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/09/21

Barbara Gothard, artist and educator, was born and raised in the landlocked agricultural community of Springfield, Illinois. Growing up in the middle of lush, green farmland, Barbara says she first experienced the desert while turning the pages of National Geographic. Barbara’s first visit to a desert came through a cultural exchange program. Barbara recalls flying from the UK to Israel and the image of the blue green waters of the Mediterranean Sea giving way to the oranges and yellows of

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32:19

DLD| Laurel Seidl |Ep 160

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/09/06

Laurel Seidl’s first experience with desert was hitch hiking from Carson City to Las Vegas in 1966. In this episode we learn Laurel has quite a bit of hitch hiking experience. Laurel moved to the desert in 1982. Her parents lived in a homestead cabin on property at the edge of Twentynine Palms, near Wonder Valley. Laurel and her future husband at the time decided they would purchase a piece of desert property in the same area – ten acres off Amboy Road - as a wedding gift to

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DLD| Sandy Smith |Ep 159

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/08/24

Sandy Smith of West Allis, Wisconsin arrived to 29 Palms as a young Marine wife and mother in December 1987. Knowing they had orders to Camp Pendleton soon, Sandy didn’t concern herself with setting up household here in the desert. – she didn’t think she’d be staying that long. Sandy found herself back in 29 Palms in June 1994 for about nine months. On Valentines Day 1995, Sandy received a call that her Marine husband would be shipping out to Okinawa, but the family wouldn’t be joining him-

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DLD| Mary Helen Tuttle |Ep 158

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/08/09

Born and raised near the Catskills in NY State, Mary Helen Tuttle fell in love with a guy who had started building a place in the desert. When Steve took a job on the west coast, they moved to Fontana. Thinking the desert home would just be a weekend retreat, the couple would make trips out on weekends to work on the dome home. They started working on their desert place in 1990 and made the move full-time in October of 2000. Mary Helen believes when you move somewhere new, you need to

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27:48

DLD| Robin Lewis |Ep 157

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/07/27

Born in in Kingston Ontario Canada, near Syracuse NY, Robyn Lewis made her way to California with her first husband – he was moving back to family and Robyn was excited to be near LA to continue her acting career. Robyn describes herself as a shy kid who took some acting classes in Canada to try it out, which lead to doing extra work on films when she moved to Los Angeles. On set, she enjoyed the camaraderie of the other actors and talks about some of the pitfalls of being a newbie in

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32:04

DLD| Kate McCabe |Ep 156

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/07/13

Born and raised in Philly, Kate McCabe made her way to California to study under former Disney animator Jules Engle (Fantasia), at CalArts. Looking for a California sound for a film she was creating, Kate approached Brant Bjork from the southern California desert music scene. Once he saw her completed project, ‘Milk and Honey’, he asked her to come to the desert and make a visual album for him. Besides cross-country road trips, this would be Kate’s first real experience with the desert.

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DLD | Jillian Sauter | Ep 155

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/06/28

Jillian has lived in the desert since 1992. Her experiences have included family trips for hiking, camping and off-roading. With little development in the desert at that time, it was easy to see big horn sheep, desert foxes and a plethora of bird species – Jillian’s continued love for the desert sprung from these experiences in nature. A self-described ‘outdoor kid’, Jillian shares remedies to the oft repeated refrain of ‘there’s nothing for kids to do in the desert’. She believes going to

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DLD| Alisha Moreno| Ep 154

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/06/15

Alisha Moreno was nine years old when she experienced the desert for the first time. Her family moved from Orange County, CA, to a condominium in the hi-desert, owned by Alisha’s grandmother. Alisha’s father, a single dad to three children, was looking for a change and moving to the desert felt like the right move. Alisha says driving up the Yucca grade was like taking a step back in time. The town of Yucca Valley was basically just Highway 62 (Twentynine Palms Highway). But there was a big

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DLD | Rose Cefalu | Ep 153

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/06/01

Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay area, Rose first experienced the desert on a camping trip w/friends. They tent camped in the Black Rock Campground in Joshua Tree National Park and she found it enchanting, beautiful, wild and fun. It was the first time she’d seen a coyote in the wild. Later, while living in Los Angeles, Rose would come out to the desert to produce photo shoots. She says of that first time back, "The wide open spaces really grabbed me". We talk about the

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DLD| Lorraine Salas |Ep 152

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/05/18

Born and raised in the East Coachella Valley, Lorraine Salas has a lifetime of experience in the desert. "When most folks hear ‘Coachella’, they think of the annual music festival, but Coachella has a rich history in the United Farm Workers Union." Lorraine is a special education teacher and like her grandmother and her father before her, she is also an environmental and social justice advocate. Her spirit for environmentalism started while spending time on her grandmothers ranch in

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DLD | Blanca S. Villalobos

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/05/03

Blanca S. Villalobos is a freelance cultural worker living in the San Gorgonio Pass with ancestral roots in Mexico. Blanca is the eighth of nine children. Their parents and half of their siblings migrated to the United States in the 1970’s, while the final four children of the family, including Blanca, were born here in the U.S. Blanca describes their family and culture as that of migrators, not so different from many living organisms on the earth. Blanca’s first desert experiences were with

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DLD| Darlene Morris |Ep 150

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/04/20

With a dad who was a Marine, Darlene Morris' family drove to and from many duty stations. The family would always make a stop in their home state of Nebraska to visit with friends and family if they could. Sometimes the drives took them through deserts and the only stops Darlene remembers making were for gas, food and Native American gift shops. Darlene’s first true desert experience was moving to 29 Palms with her first husband, a Marine in 1967. They stayed for 18 months, leaving the area

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DLD| ShaWanda Gatson |Ep 149

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/04/06

ShaWanda's first experience with the desert was as a third-grader, moving with her military family to 29 Palms, after having already moved from Mississippi to Bridgeport, CA and Camp Lejune, NC. She had all of her 'firsts' in the desert, it was her foundation. ShaWanda and her family were active in church and their community came from church and school. ShaWanda says her family found they had everything they needed her in the desert in the 80's and reminisces about Foster Freeze, the Alamo

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DLD| Lauren Kane |Ep 148

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/03/23

Lauren Kane first experienced the desert as a kid, with family trips to the Pioneertown ranch of family friends. Growing up only an hour away from Joshua Tree there were also frequent family day trips to Joshua Tree Natioanl Park. Though there were also family trips to Los Angeles and Palm Springs, the hi – desert became home, a place Lauren felt drawn to. Lauren continued those trips with her then boyfriend/now husband, taking their first camping trip together in the national park almost 12

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DLD | Valcine Brown | Ep 147

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/03/09

Valcine Brown remembers trips to Las Vegas with her Aunt, Uncle and cousins as her first experience with desert. Valcine describes a recent drive through the Mojave Preserve and what it was like to witness the destruction of the 2020 summer wildfires up close and personal. Valcine moved to the lower desert in the 90’s. While thinking about leaving Los Angeles county, her husband at the time received a timely promotion that brought them to the low desert. Some time after moving, the

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DLD| Susan Henry |Ep 146

Desert Lady Diaries ·

2021/02/23

Born and raised in Corvallis, Oregon, Susan headed for the Bay Area right after high school, picking up music gigs in clubs and hotel lounges and even going on the road alone doing solo gigs in places like Esconaba, Michigan. Eventually, Susan tired of playing alone and craved the company and camaraderie of playing with other musicians - She joined a band and began taking work as a musician on cruise ships. Her favorite port? Venice, Italy. During free time on the cruise ships, Susan

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