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AMPERSANDTALES

43 Episodes

32 minutes | May 9, 2020
Coronetto
The food you have come to know as "foreign" may not be what you think it is.... you may just be eating a romanticized Americanized version....
24 minutes | May 3, 2020
Bella Bella
Bea turns heads.  Follow her and Adam through their adventure in Rome.
31 minutes | Apr 25, 2020
Pronto
Pronto means "ready" in Italiano.  So get ready for Bea's next podcast series, "Dogs of Sorrento".
47 minutes | Apr 17, 2020
Interview with Bea #3
Listen as Bea talks about The Parlay, her art, and the next story in the queue.   Bring your kidnapping and shakedown money cause you never know where we are going to go or who we are going to meet in Cabochon County.
23 minutes | Apr 11, 2020
Last Words
Ever know someone who has to have the last word…. no matter what?  Bea wraps up the story of The Parlay by giving the last word to someone without words, but pleny to say.
25 minutes | Apr 3, 2020
Family Duty
Which obligations weigh heavier on a mind?  An obligation committed to never to be required, or an obligation committed to that is attempted then cast aside.
23 minutes | Mar 27, 2020
Long Shot
In this episode Bea talks about hopes for the future - hers, Martin’s and Adam’s.  Everyone dreams about the  future and the way life could be; possessions to be acquired and relationships to explore.  Bea exposes the dreams she has for Blanca; Martin dreams about the togetherness that will satiate his love; and Adam takes a path that he never desired.
23 minutes | Mar 6, 2020
The Zeroth Law
Come listen to Bea in the first of four final episodes as she dabbles in some complex newtonian physics and starts to tie up the loose threads of The Parlay.
30 minutes | Feb 4, 2020
Bea Interview #2 - Sister and Sparky
Welcome to our second interview with Bea, and the start of the last season of The Parlay.    In this interview Bea will talk to Sister and Sparky about story telling and their origin story. You know Bea loves a good wedding tale, and this one will be just as interesting as any you have heard before.  Everyone has a beginning and Bea loves to get into each story and hear all of the details.  Sister will introduce us to Uncle Sam and Aunt Kitten and a shady character known only as the 'Captain.' Sit back and kick up your heels in our second interview with Bea, and get acquainted with Sister and Sparky… They may be Bea’s family, but they will soon be your new besets friend.
31 minutes | Feb 22, 2019
DON'T GO MESSING AROUND IN THE DARK
In the final chapter of Season Three, Bea reveals the darkess that tired to surround her and her drag her down in to a bottomless night.  This isn't a autum ghost story but a cautionary tale of what does lurk in the night, and the misery it brings and the depth of the darkness it owns.  But the light in Bea’s heart is fueled by another, more Holy Spirit and it cuts through the inky darkness causing shadows to retreat and causes malevolent forces to shrink away.  The Spirit of Truth promises a new heart, one that is swept clean of the dirt and debris of our past. The Holy Spirit gives a new heart that is clothed in light, and from which springs a well of living water.  Bea emerges from the listless darkness clothed in raiment of righteousness and with a heart for those who have tried the same path.
23 minutes | Feb 15, 2019
Life Preservers
In this next to last installment of The Parlay, Bea reveals the fact that sometimes couples come together for a multitude of reasons.  In the cold of the world, two individuals swirl around each other, and sometimes coalesce into a single.  For the fortunate, that singularity remains closely knit and the bonds intensify with time.  For the less fortunate, as the two orbit each other the swirl  of life prevents the space between from collapsing into togetherness and the individuals are slung back apart.    Those that survive the vortex find themselves a rescuer a preserver of life and limb and a maker of a partner for life.
24 minutes | Feb 8, 2019
Baggage Service
We all have memories that hang on and remain stored in the recesses and niches of our mind.  Mundane memories float back to our conscious mind only when triggered by an outside stimulus, a familiar refrain, or a faint aroma on a spring breeze.   Those memories are harmless and the collection of a life lived.  There are memories that float on the conscious which intrude on our daily routine and cannot be shaken.  These are the ones we call baggage.  We all have it.  When you are young its baggage.  When you are old its history.  Where the line blurs is a call that only the one lugging it all around can decide.  The sooner its history the sooner you can categorize it, organize it and learn from it.
24 minutes | Feb 1, 2019
T Boned
Thanks for coming back.  In this weeks story, Bea tells the tale of a personal tragedy sprung on her at the start of a family visit.  who has not daydreamed of injury or illness to distance ourself from emotional pain so deep and crashing down upon us like a dark sea inadvertently fallen into.  Thankfully with the help of family, friends, distance and time, even the deepest cuts can be survived.  An octogenarian with skin leathered by the weather of a lifetime will tell you that life isn’t what you think it should be, but at the same time much more than could ever been hoped for.
26 minutes | Jan 25, 2019
Marked For Life
Society might try to define who we are and mark us with titles, roles, and responsibilities, but the definitions that are hardest to leave behind are those with which we mark ourselves.  Some marks like, tattoos, are visible and available for the world to see and attempt to decipher.  Too bad the ones that tangle our minds like weeds in an untended garden are the ones we brand ourselves with. Those scars are unseen to those around us, yet inform so many of our choices and perhaps predestine the outcomes of our lives.
24 minutes | Jan 18, 2019
Relationship Raccoon
Welcome to episode 3 of season 3.  Bea continues her story by recounting the beginning of her relationship with someone as bruised and battered by a past relationship as herself.  It’s a shame that beginnings don’t always foretell the rest of the story.  Time eventually heals all wounds and gives perspective to our setbacks.   Emotions rebound, hurts seem more distant, and life goes on.
22 minutes | Jan 11, 2019
No Immunity To Failure
Everyone has ups and downs - No one ever is immune to this fact of life.  In this episode, Bea talks about starting over and learning that previous life upsets do not keep you from heartbreak.  In this life the well of heartbreak never runs dry.
30 minutes | Jan 3, 2019
WARNING: Things Go Bump In The Night
Most of us are not afraid of the dark anymore, but Bea tells us that there are things that go bump in the night.  Don't worry because Bea will shine a glorious bright light of love into the inky blackness and drive those maleficent spectral apparitions away like whips of fog on a warm spring morning. 
37 minutes | Dec 24, 2018
CHRISTMAS 2018
Bea is back to end 2018 with a Christmas Special reminiscent of those from our youth.  No regular scheduled programing will be preempted, but you can be sure this special will have all the holiday warmth you would expect from a Holiday program. Don't dispair Season 3 Episode 1 will come out before the new year.  Thank you for waiting patiently 
20 minutes | Dec 29, 2017
Let No Man Tear Asunder
In this season conclusion Bea tells about her own personal D-Day.  a small gathering made up of a mentor, a secretary and Pastor Joe seal the deal.  That day started out like any other, however by the end of the day God had joined together a perfect match.  God’s divine providence moved a rock and a flower into a common location and created a love match for all eternity.
35 minutes | Dec 24, 2017
Christmas 2017
What is your favorite Christmas memory?  Do you have a beloved gift received from a special relative or a picturesque postcard scene at a loved ones house?  Sometimes the things that stand out the most are not the picture perfect memories.  Listen to Bea reminisce about Christmas in this special episode of the Parlay.
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