INTRO to the series SOME KINDA WOMAN: As an international playwright & performer, I tell stories to help make sense of our lives. I look for the shining moment, the transformation from the grief of life to laughter, understanding, acceptance and transformation. In these theatrical podcasts, you will hear the voices of many different characters from my international touring shows. One voice, one story, one woman at a time.

Read Island Santa is a true story told to me by Sunshine Coast residents and old timers, Cynthia Culbard Jones and Diana Culbard Peters about their first Christmas on Read Island – so far away that Santa would never find them. It’s a  story about the  time of being children -- and what is Christmas if it doesn’t have a bit of magic?