Wendy McClure on becoming a real writer

Writer and editor Wendy McClure tells about when she first felt like a real writer and how writing a book is like being in a "maze where things are constantly shifting" and how rediscovering the Little House on the Prairie Series led to a fascination with the Ingalls family's homes and a book.

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Featured Interview: Lisa Dietz, Non-Profit Grant Writer

Lisa Dietz began taking Spanish in middle school. That led her to a "transformative" trip to Ecuador in high school, and to studying Spanish language and literature in college. Voted "most likely to become an anthropologist" in high school, Lisa joined the Peace Corps after after college, then pursued a career in international development that has taken her from the Special Olympics to the World Wildlife Fund, back to Ecuador, and now to Washington, D.C. with an international refugee organization. She tells us about her work, growing up as a triplet, and how Kelly Cutrone's books were her picks to take with her to Ecuador.