Meet Caroline Starr Rose, a children's author and prolific reader who believes we should all be lifelong learners and embrace a wide variety of genres when we read. Serenity and Caroline met online over their shared love for the book Anne of Green Gables and its author, L.M. Montgomery. In today's episode, they talk about the real work of being a published author and Caroline's passion for honoring the child experience. They also get very nerdy about L.M. Montgomery's life and journals.

Chapters

4:11 Caroline's journey to becoming a children's book author

6:06 What it takes

13:51 What's involved in the writer life (oy, the revisions!)

24:15 Other things Caroline wanted to be

29:15 What's next for Caroline

37:08 Let's talk L.M. Montgomery, author of Anne of Green Gables

55:54 Where to start with Caroline's books

57:30 It Worked for Me

Links

Find Caroline online: carolinestarrrose.com

CarrotTop Paper Shop on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/shop/CarrotTopPaperShop

All things L.M. Montgomery: https://lmmontgomery.ca/about/l-m-montgomery/

Serenity's website, which used to be called Serenity Now: serenitybohon.com

Other mentions: The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (book); Gretchen Rubin and her podcast Happier; Anne Bogel from ModernMrsDarcy.com and the What Should I Read Next podcast; Austin Kleon; The Life and Works of L.M. Montgomery with Dr. Kate Scarth, Chair of L. M. Montgomery Studies at UPEI (on Audible); Project Hail Mary (book by Andy Weir).

L.M. Montgomery quote in Caroline's frame and on Serenity's mug in their respective offices: "The work for which we are fitted—which we feel we are sent into the world to do—what a blessing it is and what fullness of joy it holds."

I Do This For a Living is independently produced.

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In today's episode, Serenity's guest is her fifth-grade crush (now husband), Mike Bohon. (She calls him Michael.) Mike describes his job as a risk consultant working mainly in the transportation industry. Mike finds meaning in his work, which he explains, but he defines his calling as something beyond the job. In this episode, Mike and Serenity talk work, parenting, jobs versus careers, finding meaning at work, and work-life harmony.

Find Mike on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mike-bohon-cds-85499b62/

I Do This For a Living is independently produced.

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Welcome to I Do this for a Living, the show that questions everything about work culture and asks how we can spend as much time and energy on the things that matter as we do on the things that pay.

I'm your host, Serenity Bohon, a writer, day jobbist, and sarcoma survivor. After decades in the American workforce, I have a lot of questions about how we view work, what we do there, and how we find meaning in it or in the lives our work supports.

In the intro episode, I let the listener know what they can expect and list the whys behind the podcast and what it's about, including:

1. Aliveness
2. Work
3. Work culture
4. What we do on purpose

Resources:

Serenity Bohon on Instagram

The Thank You Room by Serenity Bohon

I Do This For a Living is independently produced.

@serenitylive