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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 | Evelyn Haggard | Episode 25

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2018/02/06

We start with an amazing story of a random Memorial Day car ride that ultimately brought Evelyn and her family to the desert. Evelyn is a retired Marriage and Family Counselor who along with her husband, Frank, now spends her days enjoying quiet desert mornings watching the birds in the backyard. After retiring, Evelyn spent some time taking writing classes at Copper Mountain College and had some of her writing published in HOWL, the college's annual publication. In this episode, Evelyn shares one

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Desert Lady Diaries | Sant Khalsa | Episode 24

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2018/01/30

Sant traveled through Joshua Tree on her way to Arizona in the 1970's ~ little did she know then she would eventually make it her home. She and her husband, David, began retreating to Joshua Tree on weekends to escape stressful lives in San Bernardino ~ one day, they just decided to move permanently. In this episode, Sant talks about desert quiet, education of park visitors and something at her place that causes her to drop what she's doing to go and take a look. A sci-fi fan, Sant recommends

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Desert Lady Diaries | Pat Flanagan | Episode 23

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2018/01/23

Pat grew up loving nature and visiting the desert with her family, so it would stand to reason that she would go back to school at age 35 and get a degree in Biology and be placed as the first friendly face visitors came in contact with at Anza-Borrego State Park in California. An extremely active advocate for the desert and it's natural ways, Pat is a wealth of information on everything from the importance of sand transport paths, to desert dust, to local flora and fauna. After a long time as an

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Desert Lady Diaries | Hilary Sloane | Episode 22

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2018/01/16

Hilary heads back to Tanzania Africa next week for three months, so I was thrilled she made the time to be on the podcast. In this episode, Hilary discusses the life-change she experienced, bringing her to the desert permanently in 2009. With a 35-year career as a producer and stylist for print, film and commercials in the rear view, Hilary is now creating in a different way after using her first year in Joshua Tree to learn German and take photography classes online. Her photography is in

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Desert Lady Diaries | Helen Bagley & Minerva Hoyt |...

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2018/01/09

Helen, on the left, new homesteader in Twentynine Palms; right, Minerva Hoyt, "Apostle of the Cacti". Helen learned to love the desert, coming here in 1927, with her husband Frank (due to his health issues) and three young boys. Helen and Frank ran a grocery store in Twentynine Palms, or '29 Palms', and made a life here from scratch. Among other things, they dug a well, built a school and, after years of living in and running the grocery store out of a double garage, built a house and made a life

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Desert Lady Diaries| Marge Doyle| Episode 20

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2017/12/12

Marge credits much of what she has done with her life to her Aunt Helen. When Marge was sixteen, Aunt Helen got cancer and Marge played an important role in caring for her medical needs. This experience inspired Marge to become a nurse where, through the years, her people and leadership skills combined bringing her from nurse to healthcare administrator. Today she not only works opening HIV/Aids clinics across the country, but is also President of the Board of the Morongo Basin Healthcare District

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Desert Lady Diaries | Yolanda Brown | Episode 19

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2017/12/05

Yolanda walks her talk as you'll hear in this episode. Born in Los Angeles, Yolanda came to the desert with her husband, a now-retired Marine. They moved away to Washington D.C. for awhile, then moved back to the desert - Yolanda didn't just like the desert - she loved it. With the little free time she has, she hikes, runs and walks her chihuahuas. After last years election, Yolanda felt compelled to leave her political complacency behind and joined Indivisible Morongo Basin. Yolanda is Co-Lead of

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Desert Lady Diaries | Kim McGowan | Episode 18

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2017/11/28

Kim was born in California, but spent her younger years in Missouri. She'd visit California, helping at her grandmother's restaurant in Big Bear, California, where she met her husband, Ryan, who was born and raised in Joshua Tree. One winter, after working together at Snow Summit, Kim and Ryan moved to Joshua Tree and have made their home here. Kim works at the 29Palms Marine Air Ground Combat Center, assisting Marines and their families with any special needs the family may have when they arrive

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Desert Lady Diaries| Gabriella Nagy| Episode 17

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2017/11/21

Gabriella came to the states from Hungary, where she practiced yoga with a group of like-minded individuals, even though the practice was not permitted by the government. She was only to stay for a few months, to work and save money to visit the Mexico's pyramids and experience Mayan spirituality. Gabriella fell in love with the freedom and opportunities here, deciding to make her home in New Jersey. A few years later, a cross-country drive with her son landed them in Santa Monica, where they soon

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Desert Lady Diaries

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2017/11/14

Dee has been in the desert long enough to have met local legends George Van Tassell, who built the Integratron in Landers, California and Edwin John Dingle, also known as Ding Le Mei, who began the Institute of Mentalphysics in 1927. Both the Integratron and Institute of Mentalphysics (also known as the Joshua Tree Retreat Center) are still in active existence As a journalist, Dee first visited the Hi-Desert in 1955 to cover the first Interplanetary Space Craft Convention at Giant Rock. A veteran

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Desert Lady Diaries|Kate Lee Short|Episode 15

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2017/11/07

Originally from New Jersey, Kate visited the desert 22 years ago. On the next visit, she arrived in the dark and what she woke up to the next morning convinced her to stay. In this episode, Kate talks about the influence the Wonder Valley area has on her work as a Sound Artist, the process of purchasing land in a tax sale auction and keeping track of the days of the week by when the local watering hole is open. Inspired sonically by the spaces she is in for the work that she makes. She has found the

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Desert Lady Diaries|Danielle Segura|Episode 14

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2017/10/30

Danielle Segura is working on a huge collage - using her artist background, heading to the 'studio' everyday, putting together pieces of the Mojave Desert, preserving wildlife corridors and open lands is her mission and that of her team at the Mojave Desert Land Trust. It’s is a unique land trust that conserves public lands, has a varied outreach program as well as a Mojave seed bank and nursery. In this episode, Danielle talks about her first desert experience with her father and how any small

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Desert Lady Diaries| Carly Valentine |Episode 13

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2017/10/24

At the age of 15, Carly fell in love with the desert on a trip to the Grand Canyon with her mother and grandmother. In this episode, Carly talks about finding Joshua Tree and the amazing community of women inspiring her recent photography project, Daughters of the Desert. The photography project has taken on a life of it's own, with more than 150 women from the hi-desert region participating. Plans are also being made for fundraisers to purchase a building which will be home to the non-profit

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Desert Lady Diaires | Melanie Buck |Episode 12

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2017/10/17

Melanie is a delight! A native of Nebraska, she and her husband, Buck, make their home at "Ranchita Liebre" in Landers, California. Melanie calls it their 'little slice of Hi-Desert heaven". A local librarian, Melanie has a passion for literacy and also enjoys crafting rag rugs. If you're interested in ordering one of Melanie's awesome rugs for yourself or a gift, email her at: buckjellyb@gmail.com. In this episode, Melanie talks about 'magic desert people', raising Nigerian Dwarf goats,

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Desert Lady Diaries | Megan Hutch | Episode 11

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2017/10/10

Megan Hutch, Musician and Proprietress of The Pointed Pearl Megan moved to the desert, sight unseen, on the advice of some really special people in her life. In her three plus years her, after a stretch of time on the road, she has found her voice, literally, stepping into being a wonderful singer/songwriter. Her dark, folk style ballads and her unique voice leave her audiences in a space of reflecting on their own lives. Her next EP, 'Alchemy' will be released in November 2017 and she

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Desert Lady Diaries | Pamela Goodchild | Episode 10

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2017/10/03

Pamela is a singer and musician, who has her own accounting business, which made it a fairly easy decision to move to the desert. Particularly after her landlord in LA notified her there was a $700 rent increase coming her way. After realizing it sometimes takes two hours just to travel in LA traffic in attempts to get together with friends once every two weeks and the cost of living, Pamela realized moving two hours away, to the desert, might be a viable option. In this episode, Pamela talk

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Desert Lady Diaries |Haley Kooyman|Episode 9

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2017/09/26

Haley is a mime artist who recently auditioned for a large, live performance company - but if she told us who, she'd have to kill us - , an actress and budding muralist. In this episode, Haley discusses her move to the desert, finding a home here and adapting to small-town life when one is a bit different from the typical. She also talks about her wish to bring deeper, more meaningful theatre experiences to her friends and neighbors here in the desert and as this episode is released, Haley

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Desert Lady Diaries | Bianca Stoker | Episode 8

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2017/09/19

Bianca Stoker is a daughter, wife, mother, actor, teacher, vacation rental owner and avid knitter - she is also a life-long desert dweller - her parents moved here when she was just two months old. Having grown up here, there was a time when Bianca thought she'd leave the desert for good, but after hearing how cool the place was from her college friends, moving back after college and meeting her now husband at school alumni musical event, Bianca is convinced this is the place to stay and raise

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Desert Lady Diaries | Cathy Allen | Episode 7

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2017/09/12

A desert resident for 24 years, living in Wonder Valley, artist Cathy Allen came to the desert for time and space to create her assemblage art. In this episode, Cathy talks about her work and friendship with artist Noah Purifoy. She also discusses the difficulties of finding places to eat, meeting her husband and what she feels has brought the largest wave of artists to the desert. Visit and join her latest project, Sunvale Village on Facebook to keep up with all the shenanigans of it's tiny

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Desert Lady Diaries | Jessica Berryhill | Episode 6

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2017/09/05

Born in Twentynine Palms, CA while her father was a Marine and after a long time away, Jessica was looking for a change in her life and has made her way back to the desert and is making her musical dreams come true. Jessica is the drummer for DER Trio and also plays guitar. Jessica fills her time with cat and dog sitting and in this episode talks about the challenges of the heat, weather and driving on desert roads. She talks about the challenges of being a shy musician, the importance manifesting

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