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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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Desert Lady Diaries| Barbie Sommars| Episode 45

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2018/06/26

A trip to Pappy & Harriet's to see the band Gram Rabbit was Barbie's first visit to the desert. From then, she would travel back and forth between the desert and a corporate job in Long Beach - that's a long ride for the love of the desert. After a medical diagnosis in 2008, Barbie Sommars sought alternative methods of healing and pain management and came to cannabis. She's moved from patient to activist to educator on her journey and currently leads the Orange County Chapter of Women Grow and

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Desert Lady Diaries| Sue McMahon | Episode 44

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2018/06/19

Sue's first experience with the desert was accompanying her husband, Pete, to a job interview in 29 Palms for a teaching position in 1957. At first blush, Sue was not impressed with the place, sitting under an elm tree in the June desert heat and then moving from Texas, in the middle of August, with their three young children. But, she agreed to try it out for two years - 60 years later, she's still here. After discounting the pink desert mountains in a John Hilton painting as artistic license,

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Desert Lady Diaries|Constance Walsh|Episode 43

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2018/06/12

In the 60's Constance and a friend left school, got to work and put away their money, eventually taking a cruise ship from their native Canada to England, where Constance began six years of world travel. Here first connections with desert were in Afghanistan and Iran. Constance arrived in California, eventually making her way to Pioneertown with her new partner, who was to begin work designing a project to turn Pioneertown into a resort community. The landowner went bust like spent gold mine and

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Desert Lady Diaries| Ivy Pochoda | Episode 42

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2018/06/05

A native New Yorker, Ivy Pochoda has discovered the pull of the desert. After moving to LA, she'd heard folks talk about going to the desert. Eventually she took a trip to Palm Springs and, though nice, wasn't really the experience she was looking for. The second trip she booked a vacation rental 'near Joshua Tree National Park'. After driving for sometime past two entrances to the National Park, Ivy realized the definition of the word 'near' had different meanings to her and the vacation rental

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Desert Lady Diaires | Pat Rimmintgon | Episode 41

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2018/05/29

Pat and her family were looking for a weekend getaway from Los Angeles. A newspaper ad for an adobe home on 22 acres with a well and chickens put them on the road to 29Palms. Shortly after settling in, in the 1970's, the adobe house needed repairs. This took Pat to the local library for some information where she was referred to Ted Hayes, the first teacher and principal in 29 Palms. There began Pat's immersion into the repair of adobe and the history of 29 Palms. In this episode, Pat talks about

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Desert Lady Diaries|Liz Meyer|Episode 40

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2018/05/22

A life-long resident of 29 Palms, the daughter of pioneers Bill and Ada Hatch, who homesteaded in 29 Palms in the early 1930's, one could say Liz and 29 Palms grew up together. In this episode, Liz talks about a little trick she used to go to school barefoot, shares memories of parades and square-dances and tells a great story about buying her college texts at the student bookstore. Liz reflects on how her parents contributions, and the contributions of other homesteaders reflect the spirit of the

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Desert Lady Diaries | Christina Sanchez | Episode 39

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2018/05/15

The first time Christina came to the desert it was to ring in the new year at Pappy & Harriet's in Pioneertown. She connected with some musicians who introduced her to various aspects of the desert, including the national park and Christina began splitting her time between Orange County, CA and the desert. During the transition, she also took up rock-climbing and has met and been trained by some of the most experienced and best climbers in the business. In this episode Christina also talks about

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Desert Lady Diaries | Eva Soltes | Episode 38

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2018/05/08

The desert was to be one of the locations for a documentary Eva was filming about composer, Lou Harrison. Lou was building a straw-bale construction home in Joshua Tree and invited Eva to come along for a visit during construction. Lou passed away a year to the day after construction was completed and Eva has become the Founder and Director of Harrison House Music, Arts & Ecology. In this episode, Eva discusses her first visit to the desert and the subsequent visits that followed, the decision to

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Desert Lady Diaries| Lizzie Schmelling | Episode 37

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2018/05/01

'Dem eyes ~ they almost got Lizzie and her sister into acting a whole lot sooner than she may have wished. And she comes by it honestly... her grandfather was a double for a very well-known actor. Now, Lizzie is gracing the stages in the Hi- and Low Desert and beginning to make her way to Los Angeles for auditions. Born and raised in Joshua Tree, growing up she loved that she lived in a 'village'. School field trips were hiking and learning in the national park. Lizzie entered Joshua Tree's

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Desert Lady Diaires|Dana Bowden|Episode 36

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2018/04/24

Dana was born & raised in Twentynine Palms, met and married her husband here and has made a life for her and her family in this desert town. In this episode, Dana reminisces about running through rain floods and the desert in general in her bare feet, much to the chagrin of her mom, Marilyn, whose episode aired last week. Dana is involved in her community, preserving the history of the town volunteering at The Old Schoolhouse Museum and having served on board of the Twentynine Palms Historical

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Desert Lady Diaries | Marilyn Fernald | Episode 35

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2018/04/17

Marilyn came to the Mojave in 1948 at the age of 14. Her younger sister had some health issues that doctors thought would be helped by the clean, dry desert air - Marilyn thought her parents had brought her to the end of the world. Settling at Smith's Ranch trailer park, Marilyn's father was the Caller for the weekly square dances at Smith's Gymnasium. After completing school, Marilyn married, raised three children and went into the workforce, informing her husband, "I want my own social

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Desert Lady Diaries |Tonelise Rugaas| Episode 34

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2018/04/10

How does a native Norwegian, who lived on a houseboat in London come to live in the desert? In this episode Tonelise talks about her first experience in the desert, to which many of us who are here will relate. Upon arriving, Tonelise got involved in the community to meet her neighbors. We also talk about the silence, living in harmony with the wildlife and the challenges and rewards of being a vintage experience on-site Airbnb host. Her guests have ranged from musicians to people facing their fears

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Desert Lady Diairies|Mari Collier|Episode 33

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2018/04/03

Mari Collier, Author As a young girl, Mari & her mom traveled to Arizona because of Mari's health and after several summers traveling back to Iowa, the whole family eventually moved. After a number of years in the Pacific Northwest, with 130+ inches of rain a year, Mari and her husband moved to 29Palms, joining their daughter. In this episode Mari talks about her early writing in school and for the local newspaper in Audubon, Iowa and how she ended up working for Nintendo. Mari also let's us in

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Desert Lady Diairies|Gayle Austin|Episode 32

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2018/03/27

Gayle's family moved to the desert when she was four years old and they got a bit of a chilly reception... it snowed! In this episode, Gayle reminisces about exploring in the desert and a few of the festivals and events for which people traveled for miles to attend. Even after two moves away from the desert, Gayle says she always knew she was coming back. She and her husband, Tom, were married in her parents front yard in 29Palms (old timers and the California DOT spell it: Twentynine Palms) and

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Desert Lady Diaries | Barbara Harris | Episode 31

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2018/03/20

Born in Pennsylvania, Barbara came west to California after graduating from art school and met a man, who she eventually married, who brought her to the desert for the first time. Since then, Barbara became fascinated with this place and two places in particular: Giant Rock and the Integratron. In this episode, from her 30 years of research, Barbara shares information about local legends and the spirituality of this particular area of the desert. We also talk about the 'myth' many visitors to the

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Desert Lady Diaries| Jasmine Shaffer |Episode 30

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2018/03/13

Jasmine is a desert native - born in Indio and raised in Wonder Valley. With neighbors far apart, Jasmine grew up playing in the desert with her sisters, finding abandoned homesteads and playing hopscotch on their concrete pads. With a high school graduating class of just over 100, Jasmine credits social media with her ability to track down or stay in touch with some of her fellow classmates who floated in and out of the school due to a parent in the military. In this episode, Jasmine talks about

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Desert Lady Diaries | Cheryl Montelle | Episode 29

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2018/03/06

Cheryl has been living in the desert since 1991, having grown up in St. Louis and literally dancing her way to New York City in the 1970's and eventually to Los Angeles and the Mojave. After the Sawtooth fire took her cabin near Rimrock Ranch, Cheryl wrote about her experience which eventually gave way to the creation of an always sold-out semi-annual fundraising event called 'Desert Stories', now in it's 11th year. In this episode, Cheryl talks about the inspiration behind Mil-Tree, a non-profit

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Desert Lady Diaries

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2018/02/27

Jenny is a walking miracle... with the help of prostheses. Jenny became extremely ill in early 2014, which resulted in losing parts of her legs and use of one of her hands. Jenny truly believes it was her community that kept her alive. Jenny began writing about her experience during her recovery and those reflections are now a book, "Held Together", filled with poems, prose and essays about a village coming together, suffering together, celebrating together, and falling in love together. You see,

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Desert Lady Diaries | Tami Wood | Episode 27

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2018/02/20

Tami comes from Texas and a family of fourth generation cattle ranchers. She came to California in the '80's to raise her son, first in the low desert, then Tami made a move to the Hi-Desert alone. In this episode, Tami talks about how she literally stumbled upon assemblage art, picking up random metal and other objects on her daily walks and started making art with them. Not knowing anyone in the community to which she'd moved, she read and studied the Hwy 62 Art Tours guides to meet local artists

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Desert Lady Diaries| Lindsey Anderson |Episode 26

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2018/02/13

After a class at CalEarth learning earth bag construction in the hopes of using it to build a home of her own someday, Lindsey was talking to a friend who had land in the Mojave she was looking to sell. Lindsey bought the land and established Wonder Valley Domes. The goal of Lindsey's project is not only to build her own affordable superadobe home, but to build free art studios out of sand bags and earth. In this episode, she talks about acquiring her living quarters, Winnie the Winnebago and how a

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