Gold Archives - M. Leona Godin

Dad Gives Me the Gold * Storytelling Audio + Text

I performed this story at Turn Me into Gold: A Storytelling Party in the beautiful St. Joseph’s Arts Society in San Francisco. It was a wonderful night with so many old and dear friends in the audience. Wish my dad could have been there. But then it would have been a different story… Dad Gives Me the Gold It’s… Read more

Turn Me into Gold: A Storytelling Party * SF, In-Person

I’m super excited to perform for the first time in my hometown of San Francisco at “Turn Me into Gold: A Storytelling Party”! I’ll be telling a story that’s part family history plus disability, part archaeological mystery… produced by Back Pocket Media and held in the Saint Joseph’s Arts Society on March 2 … Hope to hear you there! Buy… Read more

A Personal Obituary for My Dad, Lee A. Goodin, February 5, 1940-August 19, 2018

My dad, Lee A. Goodin, passed away into other realms on Sunday. He’d been fighting so many illnesses for several years, and yet I hadn’t seen the cardiac arrest coming. Somehow, I thought I’d have warning. Yet he had given me warning. Earlier this summer, he told me he’d decided to stop aggressive care for the infections that riddled his… Read more