Kathleen Glasgow
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166 appearances
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jan 2025
Kathleen Glasgow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Oftentimes you just don't think about your parent in that way.
And I think it's really, it's difficult for people to like, who have had difficult relationships with their parents when they were children. And you still have a difficult relationship with them when you're adult, when you're an adult. And maybe that involves like no contact or like limited contact.
And then at some point though, if you have kids are going to be like, why, why don't we see grandma all that often? Cause when they see grandma, they don't, they're like, I love grandma. Grandma's great. But in your head, you're like, I could tell you stories, you know, but you feel like I don't want to do that because maybe they could have a fruitful relationship.
But then also you're like, why are they being nicer to my child than they were to me?
Cause then you're the kid, the little kid inside you comes back and you're like, why couldn't you do that with me? Like, wait, what about me?
Like, it's very hard. Like, are you denying them something? Or are you protecting them? Right. And maybe both are true. I think that both I think that both are very, very true. Yeah, I would agree with you. And I'm sorry to hear that about your mother. I'm glad you're protecting yourself because I do think that is important once you're able to.
If that's the thing that you need, you've got to protect yourself. You have to protect yourself.
Sometimes you'll get pushback from like other family members who are like, I don't know why you're doing this to her. It's really awful. Or, you know, you're ruining it and you're like, I got to take care of me. Like that's the most important thing.
And then especially I got to take care of me and I'm taking care of kids and I can't take care of my kids if I'm not like good with myself and taking care of myself. Right. And that's also an important thing to pass on to your kids is that you can think of yourself.
You do whatever you want. And you, and you hope, and you hope for the best. And like I said, like each, like, and now you've discovered like each book is different and each book kind of, the more you work on it, it tells you how it wants to be written or like the voice or the structure and how you're going to do it. So I believe in you and you, and you, you'll figure, you'll figure it out.
I think you've, cause you've already mastered the hardest part was actually just sitting down and starting. Maybe. That's the hardest part. Like you have to sit down and start it. But then once you started, like, especially with your first one, weren't you kind of excited to go back to it? Like every time you're like, I kind of just want to write today. Right.
Like that's the best part is you build like that muscle memory. A bunch of like mood writing for that. I'm all for vibes and mood writing.
I don't operate that. I don't operate that, but you, you will, you will, you will figure it out and you'll figure out your own mood and vibe deadline. You know, I, Like, I'd like to write, like, a little bit every day. And it takes me a while to get started on a book. And it takes me maybe, like, two drafts to figure out, like, the voice of the character.
Like, I think about a book for, like, months before I start writing it. And, like, things happen. And I'll make, like, little notes. But once I start writing, I just, like, the first draft, I just write until I get to 300 pages. Mm-hmm. Because, you know, you can always go back and you will edit out the stuff. Things will jump out at you and you're like, that doesn't happen.
But I'm very much like mood and vibes and intuition. And if I can get like those first 300 pages out, Then I know what the actual story is that I should be telling. And then I have like a little bit of structure when I start like the other drafts.
We'll hold this up again. You know, my target book of the year. It'll be right here. Thank you, Tori. It's like right there. I have a sticker. I have a sticker. The Glass Girl is about a 15-year-old Bella who's been self-medicating with alcohol since she was 11.
And she is suffering from the effects of her parents' bitter divorce, the grief over the death of her grandmother, a bad breakup with her first boyfriend, and friendship group struggles. She's been self-medicating and no one has noticed. And one night she goes to a Thanksgiving party and she gets blackout drunk and her friends drop her off on her mom's doorstep.
And after that, after a stay in the hospital for alcohol poisoning, she goes to a rehab in Tucson in the middle of the desert called Sonoran Sunrise, where she's going to have to confront everything that she's been trying to erase.
And I did want to, in this book, because I am in recovery, and because I started drinking really early, like Bella did, and I think about it every day because it's something that I have to manage and be on top of. I've, you know, like, why... Why do some things latch on to some people and not others?
Like, why when I was 11 and I had that first drink, was I like, oh my God, I feel like I'm home now. Like, this is my thing. But other people, you know, teenagers, some of them are like, oh, I went to a party last weekend and I got drunk. They don't drink again for like three months. But then there's like some of us where it's like, oh, that's my thing. Like, that's where I feel good.
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