Food for Thought While You Walk Podcast

1. Episode · Jul 27, 2026

   The Witness: My Father Played Beside Ray Charles (opens the original)

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   My father is 98 years young. Before the Army, before 25 years as an auto mechanic for the Postal Service, he led his own jazz band — and in 1943 he shared a stage with Ray Charles at the South Street Casino in Orlando. Nobody outside our family knew that story until this year. This episode is about what it means to be a witness. Lyrie Duhart carried the story of the Jones family for eight decades because nobody else wrote it down. At 98 he set it down himself in his debut, The Joneses . Somebody

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2. Episode · Jul 5, 2026

   The Woman Nobody Wrote Off (opens the original)

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   One woman. Born in a back room in McComb, Mississippi, in 1931. Written off by everyone around her — and never finished. Today, as we walk, I tell you about Naomi — the woman my 96-years-young mother wrote into a novel — and the truth underneath her: a person is never finished while there's still breath in them. Naomi Good is out now, and my mother is hand-signing the first fifty copies herself — signed, numbered, and limited. Find the signed copies at the link in my bio, One woman. Born in a ba

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