HOST JACKIE TANTILLO -Books, Writers And Mystics -with Guest Author and NPR Education Correspondent, Anya Kamenetz. Looking Back at S2E19

Imagine your home is abuzz, young inspired graduate students coming and going discussing literature, your parents writing their own works plus editing for others.   This is how Anya describes her childhood.Her parents met while working at John's Hopkins University in Baltimore, Md. Once Anya was born, the family moved onto Baton Rouge, La. where  mom and dad both got jobs as  writing professors at Louisiana State University. This allowed them to write their own works as well as complete editorial work for others. They taught at  LSU for  two decades.  Moira Crone, Anya's mother, wrote several fictional novels, often incorporating her childhood memories and experiences from  North Carolina . Since her retirement from LSU, Moira, an accomplished visual artist, loves creating and hosting 'Art/Zoom' classes with her granddaughters. She is also a natural psychic and her art truly reflects her connection to her mystic beliefs. Anya has been working  long and hard from a young age and is very accomplished, often keeping others, especially children's issues close at hand. She's  reported on  everything from technology and education, standardized testing, too much screen time for kids, high costs of education and much, much more.Check out her most recent book, "The Art of Screen Time: How Your Family Can Balance Digital Media and Real Life." Look for her upcoming book  entitled "The Stolen Year"-the year lost to the pandemic.Anya is compassionate, steadfast and dedicated to helping  parents and children overcome their educational, emotional and social challenges.  She works tirelessly  researching to help solve these problems that we all face.Best of luck Anya. It was an absolute please hearing  about your childhood and your relationship with your mother.