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A perfect show for a hot day as visual artist and poet Susan Gardner joins me with her perceptive and calming new volume of poetry, Love and The Weather.

“Imagine a place of infinite beauty, peace and healing …. there is a sound that can take you there.” Words of Ashana who offers us a glimpse into that sound as she speaks about her beautiful book, “Crystal Singing Bowls: The Angelic Sound of Healing, Relaxation and Spiritual Awakening.” Let yourself rest into her music and learn about the quartz crystal bowls and her personal path as a classically-trained, gifted musician. And how she unfolded her rare passion, her soaring, angelic voice merging with seeming alchemical resonance with the unique vibration and harmony of each crystal bowl she touches. A very special music-filled episode of The Last Word. www.soundofashana.com

A fascinating conversation with former US Ambassador Mark Asquino in the KSFR studio with his exciting memoir, Spanish Connections: My Diplomatic Journey from Venezuela to Equatorial Guinea. (Click for more.)

How long can you keep a secret and what happens when the secret is accidentally revealed? Award-winning author Carlyn Montes De Oca joins me with her new book, Junkyard Girl: A Memoir of Ancestry, Family Secrets and Second Chances.

Genies and magic rampage through the KSFR studio for 23 minutes with Albuquerque author Hugh Fritz as he brings Book One of his Mystic Rampage series to life with Made To Be Broken. Listening to Hugh reading in character is an intriguing delight as we learn about Darren, Soleil and Flarence and how they came to be in the author’s fascinating mind. Host Carly Newfeld enjoys learning about the fantasy genre, asking Hugh, how do you write fantasy and what originally inspired you?

Lark Ascending: Magic, Mystery and Mayhem in A Spiritual Community is a perfect description of poet and playwright Meleth Delia Batteau’s delightful coming-of-age story set in the early days of the famous Findhorn Community in Northern Scotland.

Welcome in the festive spirit as we celebrate the spoken word with three of this year’s Collected Works Holiday Players. Settle softly into the timeless enchantment of Christmas morning in Northern New Mexico with gifted writer Alfredo Celadon Lujan as he reads his award-winning story, Mis Crismes. Ward off The Grinch with delightful Santa Fe theater veterans Jim and Carol McGiffin celebrating their 15th year with the Holiday Players. Click the podcast link, sip hot chocolate and crunch bizcochitos as you listen to this week’s episode. Collected Works 15th Annual Holiday Players, 6:00 pm Friday, December 15 at the bookstore on Galisteo St.

It’s my fourth anniversary hosting The Last Word and celebrating with me are intrepid travel journalists Judith Fein and Paul Ross, aka Cowboy Poet PJ Ross. Judie is back with more stories from her very popular book How to Communicate with Dead and How Cultures Do It Around The World. She meets a realGhost during a ceremony in Brazil and honors the beautiful rituals of our Mexican neighbors for whom a conversation with a deceased beloved relative is often part of everyday life. Keep your mind and heart open as you listen and discover Judie and Paul at globaladventure.us

Since she was five years old, Bettye’s mother has reminded her of the family credo, “Always remember you’re a Madison. You come from African slaves and a president.” Her book, The Other Madisons: The Lost History of A President’s Black Family” is Bettye’s gift to her own descendants and to all of us to remember that the Founding Fathers may have laid the foundations for our country, but the actual physical foundations were built and maintained by millions of enslaved people. Bettye is the “griotte” in her family, the one bearing witness to the lives of generations long past by retaining and protecting the oral history which she will in turn pass onto her own daughter. The Other Madisons takes this history and her decades of exhaustive research and puts it in writing for the first time. Yet to listen to this interview with Bettye gives you a taste of the ancient storytelling tradition without which we would never learn the truth. The Other Madisons bettyekearse.com

A mouth-watering treat for listeners today with three-time James Beard award-winning culinary writer Anya von Bremzen with her new book, National Dish: Around The World in Search of Food, History and The Meaning of Home. Part geography, part history and an exploration of deep cultural roots, we begin in Paris with the classic home-cooked dish, pot au feu, and travel with Anya onto Naples, Italy, to taste pizza unlike any you’ve tasted before. In a few minutes we’re in Seville, Spain relaxing with friends over tapas and onto Oaxaca, Mexico where the secrets of mole are passed down through generations There we learn of the 3,000 year old fight to keep corn, masa, safe from the wheat barons. Our final moments are spent in war-torn Ukraine the home of borsch, or is it Russia who claims to have created the delicious beetroot soup? National Dish is published by Penguin.