I was born in Chatham, Ontario, Canada in 1937. My mother, an American, was a housewife. My father would soon be going off for his 2nd war (WWII) as a bombing and gunnery instructor. He was in the R.A.F. in WWI, joining up when he was 16 years old. I lived in Chatham from my year of birth until 1957. I lived thereafter for 8 months in Atikameg, Alberta on a Cree Indian Reservation where my husband was teaching. Later, we moved to Detroit, Michigan for a year (He was an American). After that I lived in the Lower East Side of New York City for 13 years, before moving back to Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1972. I am retired now from working as a Webmaster for the Canadian government. When not Podcasting I am an avid online war gamer in World of Warcraft. HOW I GOT STARTED IN PODCASTING I edited the code of an existing XML feed to create my own but there were bits I didn't completely understand, so I bought FeedForAll which made life easier.  To record and for editing I used Audacity  and Adobe Audition Having given 10 speeches for Toastmasters I was pretty much at home with public speaking and this past experience also helped when I became a popular blues history guest on a local blues FM radio show BLUZ Fm with Danny Marks on http://www.jazz.fm where I've done 30 guest spots now. I've lived a longish life and know a bit about entertaining so the rest is Podcasting history, so to speak.