A lighthearted look around Gaithersburg's Book Festival 2022, back after COVID, in a new location and with a whole new feel! Anita interviews award-winning Korean-American author Ginger Park, talks to kids, volunteers, attendees and participants at the festival, and briefly touches on the City of Gaithersburg's Multicultural Affairs Committee (of which she is a part) and its work enriching the city.

Happy New Year 2023...it's here in the blink of an eye!

Participants:

Two Smooth Dudes Food Truck - Food Truck, Tater Tots

Award-winning authors | parksisters.com

European and fine American chocolate | Chocolate Chocolate | Washington (chocolatedc.com)

Home - Editorial Freelancers Association - EFA Freelancers, Rates & More (the-efa.org)

Hear the final part of Ambassador (Retired) Richard Bogosian's interview that ends on a hugely sobering note; then meet Guy Kembola, an experienced care-giver who tells us about the kinds of abuse found in nursing homes and about what the job is actually like. About that abuse, it's not what you are thinking!

Eldercare Part One: Through a uniquely international lens and smatterings of a love story, our guest, Ambassador (Retired) Bogosian, takes us through what it was like mentally and practically for him to go through the maze of finding the right care for his late wife, Claire, in the $400bn Senior Care industry. In Part Two, we will conclude the Ambassador's story, and hear caregiver Guy Kembola's perspective of what it is like to care for the elderly as a profession.