Season 3 of The Dodd Life has finally arrived! IN it, I talk to my former theatre students from White's Creek High School in Nashville, Tennessee. Tiffany, Charles, Joseph and Shandale. We met in the fall of 2006, and now that I think about it, we did the show 13 years ago in November of that year and not in 2007 as we discuss in the episode. Another lifetime! This was such a great year for Shine and me, moving to Nashville, a city still untouched by bachelorette parties and airbnb rentals. Taylor Swift was pretty new on the scene and you could still show up at the Bluebird ten minutes before a show and possible get in! Our school was out northwest of downtown Nash, a school that sat alone in a pasture surrounded by the beautiful rolling hills of Tennessee. I've stayed in touch with the kids on Facebook of course, but it was nice to sit down and chat.
My whole life, I love a good ghost story. And it is that time of year. Soon you'll be able to tune into American Ghost Story twice a month, and then weekly. This show will feature the most famous ghost stories in the cities we love, accompanied by personal stories from people across the country. If you have a ghost story to share please contact me at robindodd@mac.com and we will get you on the show. I'd like to thank our guests this week. Nora and Emily from Nashville, and Dina from Fort Worth, and look forward to our first episode of American Ghost story with Michele from Georgia, and Melissa from Montana.
Hi guys! We've made it a month with the girls away at college. It's been weird, fun, exciting, empty nesty... On this episode of the Dodd Life, the family is in one of their happy places. Chicago and Bacino's Pizza.
Welcome to the longest road trip. New Hampshire my friends. Five days after we left Chicago and Holly at her dorm, the rest of us headed to New England. Stay tuned for the Chicago trip next, I had to LOCATE THE RECORDINGS! LOL and mainly, it's us eating with a couple bickers thrown in, but we made it, and as usual we love any trip to Chicago! It could not be more amazing that Holly lives there now. In New England we decided to stay at a Hippie Haven on the way up. It was quirky, cool and well hippie like, in EVERY WAY. LOL Next came the Yurt in East Burke, then the college drop and Shine and Grace and I headed to Maine. It's hard to put into words the feelings of the empty nest. I like to talk too much so I'm sure I'll find a way! LOVE you all and thanks for listening!
It's the thrilling second season of The Dodd Life. Ma and Pa are exhausted but refreshed and exhilarated from the wonderful college send offs to dorm rooms that rival the Hilton. How does that happen? Times have changed since the olden days. The glance at the southern coast of Maine was enough to keep them going for a couple years and spoiler alert, a peek at their future home state Vermont, helps even more. Follow along as Grace Sticker Dodd competes this year as a level 10 and we check in with Holly and Mariama, and wait for it. Shawn gets his Ryan Gosling teeth. Don't miss it!
Some days are Diamonds, some days are stones... to quote my boyfriend John Denver. The Dodds are spending so much time in the car., and the Dodds are all working overtime on everything, to prepare for the big send off! and subsequent vacation. I am grateful for the exhaustion, I will say that. I hope to one day be sitting on a nice beach with a martini in my hand wondering... "Do you think the kids want to come down for the week?" So we must stay present. WE MUST enjoy the wild waves of life because one day soon we may shaking the sand out our bathing suit wishing that the house wasn't so quiet and that we could hear peeling laughter from the living room way past bedtime. On this episode, we find Robin at the Car Wash. Yes she's scared of them. And Yes, that's weird, I think. Grace discusses her new job at one of Cincinnati's greatest institutions. Skyline Chili. We talk gymnastics and no one knows where the other three are.... Please share our podcast with your friends and we would love it if you would subscribe and give us a REVIEW!
Look. I was cool once. And I think my husband was too, but apparently, Generation HUH? does not believe we old folk have got it going on... WELL I am SHOOK.
Thank you, Thank you! For joining me as I chitty chat, yet again with another friend. This time my Texas Tumbleweed honorary niece, Emily Rose. She's on the road from the Fort to Dallas, and I'm in good ole Cincinnati. We discuss her recent marriage to Victor the cello playing, Frank Sinatra loving, professional fighter from Mexico City, and I as usual throw in a couple stories from the wonder years of my own.
Christie and I have been friends since 1986, no small feat. We met in the theatre department of Baylor University, during the John Hughes era, and LOVED being roommates. Our favorite thing was to bicker in the mornings and later cry and hug and make up in front of the entire theatre department sometime later that day. We subscribed to drama. It was our everything back then. We have always laughed alot together. Christie was born in Texas like me and was from the "Texas side of Texarkana" while I was born in Waco, and grew up in Fort Worth. We both NOW shockingly reside in Ohio, a place we never thought about in the 1980's. In the 90's, we both lived in New York City, in the same neighborhood, the Upper East side, and now as middle aged babes, we like to check in a few times a week, to help each other make it through the day to day. Last month we decided to meet in the middle, Columbus, and survived rooming together yet again. * There are a few "choice" words so I wouldn't listen with little kids.
Y'all. Sometimes I love to whine. I know this is hard for ANYONE who knows me to understand, but I decided that ever so often, I will sit on the front porch and talk to you guys. Tell you about the goings on..
Our youngest daughter Grace is our most practical Dodd, yet holds the record for the loudest and most joyful laugh. She loves ridiculous comedy, reality Emergency Room shows, ooh gross, the Office and Downton Abbey. You'll find her snuggling her puppies, sleeping in the hammock , creating art, along with a 25 hour a week workout in the gym, and enjoying a nice hearty plate of biscuits and gravy. We find Grace on the couch where she likes to nap, and ask her a few questions.
Last Saturday, many volunteers came together in the Avondale and Evanston neighborhoods of Cincinnati to Paint the Town! It’s been a decade since the non profit has been in the urban neighborhood of Avondale. We met some pretty cool folks. After a long day of painting, the Dodd girls and Sam discuss why Outlander is the show to watch..
This thrilling segment is back. Today Robin and her nephew talk mozzarella sticks, vacation antics and of course Grandpa JT.
Holly aka Moonpie Dodd and I discuss her journey to becoming the next award winning playwright and her genius ability to remember lyrics of the greatest musicals 😘
On the eve of her 19th birthday, Mariama and I chat about high school, head injuries and life.
Robin loves her friends and every week she’ll call one for a candid conversation. Christie and Robin were college roommates from Texas who now both oddly enough live in OHIO. They are BOTH long winded 😊
Shawn’s been keeping a secret. Robin conducts her first podcast interview. She’s no Diane Sawyer, but listen for yourself.
Meet Shawn and Robin Dodd, two Texans, transplanted after 10 years in Nashville, to a horse farm in the Midwest, where they live and work with their three daughters, and soon to be renovating an 19th century Italianate mansion. Shawn is a singer songwriter and loves home restoration, Robin is a writer, photographer, singer, avid talker, and education advocate. Mariama is a Visual artist, future CEO or Supreme Court justice. Holly is a playwright, a visual artist, and future show runner, and Grace is a high level gymnast and lover of animals and animation and the most mature person in the family. Quite a few characters will be making an appearance, including the one and only grandpa JT.