After joining forces to produce and co-host a podcast that ran for five years (2013-2018), Amanda and Mabel reunited in season one of “The Gilded Hour” to create a podcast that combines our love of history and pop culture.
Mabel is an avid reader and gamer with a knack for getting overly invested in fictional characters. Most days you can find her in her natural habitat of “cozy chair with pile of books.“
- I have two cats, an orange one-brain-celled girl named Honey, and a black void who thrives on chaos called Sassenach, but we call her Sassy for short.
- I’m a Nintendo gamer, with a fondness for PS and PC.
- The fastest way to my heart is through a love for The Legend of Zelda franchise. Also acceptable: reading frequently and diversely.
Amanda has far too many hobbies, ranging from gardening to metal-smithing, but always comes back to her love of good stories and art. Trained in art history, education and journalism, she’s now a writer and editor.
- I collect gemstones and that has led to me, in recent years, learning metalsmithing and stonesetting to make fine jewelry… what can I say, I like sparkly things.
- Although I only have a small outdoor space, I enjoy gardening and growing as many veggies and flowers as I can in the summer.
- I love historical homes and live in a modest 1910 home that likely housed railroad workers back in the day. It was a bit challenging to turn it into something inhabitable for a modern-day family.