When I started this newsletter Loving Spoonful, I also started a podcast called Love Party with a similar theme around love. The idea for the podcast came first and informed this newsletter and that podcast idea came to me in college some 20 years ago before podcasting even existed. I went to a small women’s college in New England called Smith College. It’s amazing how many things your discover in the that time of voluminous learning or exploration. Around that same time is when I first learned of the author, cultural critics and educator bell hooks. Although I never linked my idea for what would become the podcast with bell hook’s work, hooks would subsequently become a guiding light in how I approach the work I’m doing today in a very round about way.