Sublime Swifties

Karabeth (KB) Vanick is more of my chosen family, she's a social worker and triathlete from Boston, and her mother Julie is a retired elementary school teacher. Julie went to college during the 60's when women couldn't wear pants to class, and later were were fighting for equality and she loved it, almost as much as she loves Taylor. Listen to this mother and daughter pair talk about all things Taylor, as well as their stories. Julie is a treasure the way she talks about Taylor is if she were her own grand-daughter. It is so sweet! Julie definitely wears rose-colored (and heart-shaped!) glasses in the way she sees Taylor, she can do no wrong in her eyes ever. Grandmas make amazing Swifties, too!

Marianne like Joanna from Episode 1 is another member of my chosen family and she is an amazing Swiftie! She totally has a wikipedia page, she's so famous: "Monson is an American author of women's history and children's books; and a teacher (currently at Clatsop Community College near her home in Astoria, Oregon). She is the founder of a literary nonprofit, The Writer's Guild.   She earned a BA in Honors English from BYU, a Masters in Creative Writing from Vermont College and a Masters in English pedagogy from Pacific University. Monson was Managing Editor at Beyond Words Publishing, where she edited a number of best-selling titles. She has also taught English and creative writing at Portland Community College and at BYU-Hawaii. She has written and published several books for adults and children as well as historical articles in Rain Magazine, Coast Weekend, Our Coast.   Among the twelve books Monson has written and published she uses the names of her two children (Nathan and Aria) for the protagonists' names. With Michelle Roehm McCann and David Hohn, Monson wrote "Finding Fairies: Secrets for Attracting Little People from Around the World" (2004, Whitecap Books, Limited), and edited the "Girls Know Best" series (1999, three volumes, Beyond Words Publishing).   Monson is best known for her women's history books, including nonfiction titles "Frontier Grit: the Unlikely True Stories of Pioneer Women" (2016) and "Women of the Blue & Gray: Mothers, Medics, Soldiers, Spies of the Civil War" (Shadow Mountain Press, 2018). Her historical fiction novel about the life of Martha Hughes Cannon, "Her Quiet Revolution: A Novel of Martha Hughes Cannon, Frontier Doctor and First Female State Senator" was released in Spring 2020 in commemoration of the 100th anniversary of US women's suffrage. Monson's latest novel "The Opera Sisters" was published in September 2022.

This is my first episode of my podcast Sublime Swifties. I'm Rosie, I just turned 11, and on this show, I sit down with Swifties to learn how they’re channeling their positive fan energy into changing their little corner of the world for the better. So the rest of us can too. My story is, I wanted to go to the Eras Concert this past cruel summer SO bad, but it didn’t work out. I watched the era's movie 5 nights in a row instead. I still felt all this crazy extra passion with no place for it to go and I wanted to use that energy for good. So I started this podcast. My mom’s a counselor and says that’s called sublimation, and it’s a good thing. We are sublime swifties, and we’re going to change the world. Are you ready for it? To keep up-to-date with what’s coming up, be sure to follow us on Instagram @ sublimeswiftiespodcast and on Facebook. This podcast isn’t just for the young. EVERYONE can run with this podcast, feel inspired, and uplifted. So be part of our sublime community! So please think hard about how you can channel your own swiftie energy into helping others, and let me know! I’m just a girl trying to find a place in this world. In this episode, my chosen family (like James, Betty, and Inez are to Taylor) Aunt Joanna, who has loved me since I was a baby, tells me about her story and how she is an activist in Utah to help others.