Showing results for "Slow" in Biographies & Memoirs

Susan and Carlos were unlikely friends. She was a young, overweight college professor and a bit of a trainwreck - juggling a divorce, a pack-a-day habit, and hiding empty boxes of wine under her bed. He was her boss, an Ironman triathlete, with life figured out. She was a whiner, he was a hard-ass. He had his shit together, she most assuredly did not. Trash-talking workouts, breakdowns, a devastating diagnosis - this heartwarming story of training buddies reveals a deep and abiding friendship that traversed life, sport, and everything in between.

In 2013 Eli Mandel decided to recreate the 642-mile trek that John Keats completed in the summer of 1818, hoping to learn more about the famous poet who died at the age of 25. As Mandel matches his "ghostly companion's" journey step-for-step, the moments of discovery turn inward and Mandel is forced to face his own ghosts.

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A haunting and beautiful memoir from a Cambodian refugee who lost her country and her family during Pol Pot's genocide in the 1970s but who finds hope by reclaiming the recipes she tasted in her mother's kitchen. Take a well-fed nine-year-old with a big family and a fancy education. Fold in 2...

Emmy-award winning broadcast journalist and leading Alzheimer’s advocate Meryl Comer’s Slow Dancing With a Stranger is a profoundly personal, unflinching account of her husband’s battle with Alzheimer’s disease that serves as a much-needed wake-up call to better understand and address a...

The definitive account of pop music in the mid-eighties, from Prince and Madonna to the underground hip-hop, indie rock, and club scenes Everybody knows the hits of 1984 - pop music's greatest year. From "Thriller" to "Purple Rain," "Hello" to "Against All Odds," "What's Love Got to Do with It"...

Politik är komplicerat och måste få ta tid. I denna podd fokuserar vi på de riktigt svåra samhällsutmaningarna, frågor som saknar snabba lösningar. Alla får tala till punkt. Slow Politics, helt enkelt.

A satirical telling of the author's experiences as a Drivers Ed instructor. Being an instructor for a private Drivers Education company sounded like the launch of a career that would last a lifetime.... Not! Thomas's "carma", was a short, but colorful, stint in the instructor's seat. The author learned more than he wanted about driving cars better suited for the junk yard, nice kids with angry parents, suburban angst, and being a buckled-in therapist.

SLOW STARTERSは ゆとり世代のTatsuとYutaが少しでもポジティブなコンテンツを作りたいと思って始めました。 人生ってまだまだ知らないことってたくさんあって 限られた時間の中で学んだり、経験したり、新しい人に出会ったり。 できるだけたくさんのことをこのポッドキャストを通してやってみたいと思っています！ "It's never too late to try" and " Now or Never”をモットーに新しいことに挑戦してみたり、僕たちが新しく学んだことをシェア...

From one of the most gifted writers of her generation comes the harrowing and exquisitely written true story of how a family tragedy saved her life. Dani Shapiro was a young girl from a deeply religious home who became the girlfriend of a famous and flamboyant married attorney—her best...

Welcome to The Slow Burn! We’re Jake, Andrew and Red...just three buddies that indulge in true crime, conspiracies, politics, religion, mysteries of the world...and of course, a fine cigar. So grab a stogie, pour a glass of whiskey and join us for a Slow Burn.

In this engrossing memoir, Marion Nestle reflects on how she achieved late-in-life success as a leading advocate for healthier and more sustainable diets. Slow Cooked recounts of how she built an unparalleled career at a time when few women worked in the sciences, and how she came to recognize and reveal the enormous influence of the food industry on our dietary choices.

"Wonderful... Physicans would do well to learn this most important lesson about caring for patients." —The New York Times Book Review Over the years that Victoria Sweet has been a physician, “healthcare” has replaced medicine, “providers” look at their laptops more than at their...

Nate Jackson’s Slow Getting Up is an unvarnished and uncensored memoir of everyday life in the most popular sports league in America - and the most damaging to its players - the National Football League. After playing college ball at a tiny Division III school, Jackson, a receiver, signed as a free agent with the San Francisco 49ers, before moving to the Denver Broncos. For six seasons in the NFL as a Bronco, he alternated between the practice squad and the active roster, eventually winning a starting spot - a short, tenuous career emblematic of the average pro player.

Slow the heck down is a podcast all about life's little and big moments.

The definitive history of the rise and heyday of the revolutionary Greenwich Village music scene, based on new research and first-hand interviews with many of its legendary performers Although Greenwich Village encompasses less than a square mile in downtown New York, rarely has such a concise...

Burned-out after years of doing development work around the world, William Powers spent a season in a 12-foot-by-12-foot cabin off the grid in North Carolina, as recounted in his award-winning memoir Twelve by Twelve. Could he live a similarly minimalist life in the heart of New York City? To find out, Powers and his wife jettisoned 80 percent of their stuff, left their 2,000-square-foot Queens townhouse, and moved into a 350-square-foot "micro-apartment" in Greenwich Village.

Diane Arbus was one of the most brilliant and revered photographers in the history of American art. Her portraits, in stark black and white, seemed to reveal the psychological truths of their subjects. But after she committed suicide at the age of 48, the presumed chaos and darkness of her own inner life became, for many viewers, inextricable from her work. In the spirit of Janet Malcolm's classic examination of Sylvia Plath, The Silent Woman, William Todd Schultz's An Emergency in Slow Motion reveals the creative and personal struggles of Diane Arbus.

Inspired by the Twenty Thousand Hertz, Invisibilia, and Body Electric podcasts, welcome to Slow Radio, a background noise adventure series!Thoughts? Share them at slowradio@adultswithjobs.co or in the comments! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to Slow Progress. Living as a 20-something is hard. And doing it alone can be even harder sometimes. Lindsay has a lot of thoughts about navigating life as a girl in her twenties, and will not hesitate to share her thoughts on it (and she has a lot). From celebrating the big and small moments to navigating the difficult experiences, and trying to find yourself somehow, Slow Progress is all about taking it one day at a time and trying to enjoy every second of it. Grab a Dr. Pepper or an Aperol Spritz, listen along, and maybe find some things out about you along the way.