1KHO 776: Carry Your Own Bucket | Melanie Shankle, Here Be Dragons
4/22/202654 min
Melanie Shankle is one of those writers who can make you laugh on one page and hit something tender that makes you cry on the next, and this conversation with Ginny Yurich on The 1000 Hours Outside Podcast goes right there. They talk about motherhood, daughters, mean girls, family pain, what it means to be deeply loved, and how the phrases that get handed down in a family can shape a whole life. It’s funny, sharp, moving, and full of the kind of honesty that makes you feel less alone as a woman and a mom. Explore Melanie’s books, Melanie's Podcast, and find Instant NYT Bestseller Here Be Dragons here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Ginny Yurich· Host0:30
Welcome to 1,000 Hours Outside podcast. My name is Jenny Horton, the founder of 1,000 Hours Outside, and I have just read two books out of, I guess, a whole stack of books. There's more for me to read, but two books that I absolutely loved. I love memoirs, and I just... Oh, I had all the feels in these books. I read Here Be Dragons: Treading the Deep Waters of Motherhood, Mean Girls, and Generational Trauma, and I also read Sparkly Green Earrings: Catching the Light at Every Turn. You laugh and you cry through them, and the author, Melanie Shenkel, is here. Welcome, Melanie.
Melanie Shankle· Guest1:01
Thank you, Jenny. I'm so excited and happy to be here with you today.
Ginny Yurich· Host1:04
Can you talk about all of these books that you've written? You wrote six books in eight years. Is that correct?
Melanie Shankle· Guest1:10
Yeah, I did. I... You know, you wonder sometimes, "Why am I tired?" I think that's why. [laughs] Why do I have nothing else to say? That's why. [laughs] Um, no, I started... So you've, you've read the book then. So Sparkly Green Earrings was my very first book.
Ginny Yurich· Host1:23
Oh.
Melanie Shankle· Guest1:23
And yeah, it's my first book baby, and it came out in 2013, I think.
Ginny Yurich· Host1:29
Wow.
Melanie Shankle· Guest1:29
Um,