ONGOING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT MODERN LIVING…
Episode 30: Warmth, Email, Books and Relationships
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We gathered to record Episode 30 at Cafe Romeo, the hip, delicious East Rock coffee shop. We were joined by Anne Witkavitch, Kristin Huffman, and Mark Branch, and hosted by Chris Mordececai.
Bruce, Anne, Mark, Kristen, Chris, and Duo (Photo by Cindy)
After getting her MFA, Anne Witkavich left Corporate America and started her own communications & change management consulting business. She also compiled and edited the award winning book, Press Pause Moments, and began teaching writing at WCSU. Anne is a health and wellness enthusiast and stays active with her husband, two children, dog and cat. Her philosophy is that if you have a vision and a plan, you’ll get where you’re going no matter what life throws at you.
Kristin Huffman is a multi tasker who really doesn’t like to multi task. She is a producer, Broadway performer (in the Tony Award winning show “Company”), Artistic Director and founder of The New Paradigm Theatre which is hosting the “So ya wanna be a Broadway Star” competition Jan 28/29th in Stamford. Kristin is a professor at The University of Hartford (Hartt school) and Western CT University. (She was also Miss Ohio and a runner-up to Miss America which paid off all her student loans at Northwestern University!)
Mark Alden Branch is the executive editor of the Yale Alumni Magazine and a writer with a special interest in architecture and design. He is the father of two boys and lives in the East Rock section of New Haven.
What are the characteristics of a “good relationship”?
As Duo points out in Episode 30, the word relationship involves “at least two things in position with each other…”
This obviously creates a wide range of possibilities, both good and bad.
The show airs tomorrow at 4:30 on WNPR, and you’ll hear what our guest conversationalists Kristin, Anne and Mark had to say.
In the mean time, I’m interested in your thoughts: What are the characteristics of a “good relationship”?
What is a reasonable turnaround time for emails?
This one’s been on my mind lately, and you’ll hear what our guest conversationalists had to say on the subject in Episode 30 this Sunday.
I’m pretty quick, but, as we talked about during our recording session, this has the effect of training people to expect a fast response.
What do you think – an hour? A day? Two days? More???
Episode 29: Vices, Heat, and Civic Duty
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Episode 29 was recorded on a busy Sunday afternoon at the incredible Modern Apizza on State Street in New Haven.
Ted, Duo, Bruce, Debby and Cristin (Photo by Cindy)
Our guest conversationalists were Debby Wan, Cristin Siebert and Ted Koppy.
Debby is a Connecticut native but has recently moved to the New Haven area. She’s a mechanical engineer by trade and is also the Vice President of the Friends of the New Haven Animal Shelter.
Cristin moved around extensively both in the U.S. and abroad before settling down in New Haven seven years ago. She is the Director of Yale Academic Programs Abroad, which means she spends her time sending undergraduates to study all over the world.
Ted Koppy served as an anchor and general assignment reporter for News 8 [in New Haven] from October 2004 until April of 2011. Prior to joining News 8, Ted was in Phoenix, Arizona, where he anchored KPHO’s morning and noon newscasts. Ted is currently a financial advisor at Waddell & Reed.
We talked about this week’s featured questions – conquering vices, exercise, winter power outages, tax documents, heating costs and civic duty – while munching on a few of Modern’s truly amazing pies…
What is our “civic duty”?
This is a big question to me. I pay taxes. I vote. I will hopefully remember my jury duty next month. But what do I / we really owe our society?
(Questions like these are unavoidable when you think about how interdependent we are. Look what happens when the weather gets really bad.)
You can hear what our guest conversationalists have to say in Episode 29, and we’d love to hear from you, too; What is our “civic duty”?