The Spark (A Follow Your Curiosity Production)
Nancy Norbeck, Katie DeBonvilleWritings and reflections inspired by following my own curiosity, wherever it happens to take me
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This week on the podcast, I’m talking to my friend Jamie Lyn Weaver, whose new memoir, Locked in the Psych Ward, tells the story of what happened to her during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s.
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How Do You Stay Yourself While Everything Changes?
This week on the podcast, it’s the conclusion of my 2020 conversation with actor Paul McGann.
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The problem isn’t that you’ve lost your creativity
The fifth Report from the Creative Closet is out. For years, I’ve heard people tell me they aren’t creative. Sometimes they say it casually. More often, they say it with surprising conviction.
“I don’t have a creative bone in my body.”
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What happens when the dream doesn’t look like you planned?
This week on the podcast, I’m revisiting my 2020 conversation with actor Paul McGann
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The thing kids know that adults forget
The fourth Report from the Creative Closet is out. This time, I’m thinking about play. Not the sort of play that gets packaged up as a productivity hack or sold back to us as some kind of self-improvement strategy. Just... play. Curiosity....
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Writer. Musician. Music lover. More lyrics in my head than I can count! My memoir Grace Notes will be published by Sibylline Press in May 2026. I’m mainly an essayist but love Substack’s freedom to test other genres. I’m experimenting and loving it!
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