http://www.mgshow.orgThe Mimi Geerges Show is an independently produced talk radio program that each week brings a fresh take on politics, culture, and the trends that shape our world. This one-hour interview series features the country's leading experts, authors, and entertainers. The Mimi Geerges Show speaks to a new generation of listeners who are turned off by shout-shows but still want to hear frank and inquisitive radio. The program airs nationally on XM Satellite Radio as well as public stations around the country. The program is a production of Focal Point Radio, a 501(c)3 tax-exempt organization. en-usFri, 29 Jul 2005 23:39:38 GMTFeedSpring - http://feedspring.com/Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:53 GMThttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rssA best selling author, Anne Lamott, Grace (Eventually): Thoughts on Faith took a, what she calls "erratic" path to Christianity. For her, laughter is "carbonated holiness" which she amply uses to express the frailty of the human condition and the grace that gets her through it. Then, Peter Gillquist, Becoming Orthodox: A Journey to the Ancient Christian Faith was a devout evangelical Protestant. But when he began searching for the ancient Christian faith, he was astonished to find it alive and well in the Orthodox church. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:20:18 GMTTwo very unlikely Congressmen with colorful pasts: As Cooter in the popular TV show The Dukes of Hazzard, Ben Jones, Redneck Boy in the Promised Land: The Confessions of "Crazy Cooter" grew up in the hills of Virginia. He battled alcoholism and became a successful actor, then a two-term congressmen. www.cootersplace.com Then ... As a child, James E. Rogan, Rough Edges: My Unlikely Road from Welfare to Washington dreamed of going to Congress. He eventually achieved his dream, but on the way had a few bumps on the road. As the illegitimate son of a cocktail waitress and bartender, he was initially raised by his grandparents in San Francisco's hardscrabble neighborhoods. As a young man, he bartended at biker bars and strip joints to pay for law school. Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:08:03 GMTPulitzer Prize winning literary critic Michael Dirda, An Open Book: Coming of Age in the Heartland describes his youth in the small working-class town of Lorain, Ohio. Michael Dirda has been a writer and senior editor for the Washington Post's Book World for over 25 years. Then... After failing at twenty-two other jobs, Barbara Corcoran, Use What You've Got, and Other Business Lessons I Learned from My Mom borrowed money, quit her job as a diner waitress, and started a tiny real estate business in New York City. Today, the Corcoran group is New York's premier real estate company. Mon, 28 Jul 2008 20:24:20 GMT