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As The Wheels Turn… Your Next Page-Turner - Sk8LikeYou Podcast Episode 135: Author, Jack Dieteman

Sep 13, 2026 · 1h 21m

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In Episode 135 of the SK8LIKEYOU Podcast, I sit down with Jack Dieteman, author of the new book As the Wheels Turn: Skating, Dating, and Long Distance Love. What started with two shoeboxes full of decades old letters eventually became a deeply personal coming of age story built around roller skating, first love, long distance relationships, music, and growing up in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Jack takes me through how those letters helped him reconstruct a period of his life that never really left him, and how sharing a few stories with a small Facebook group unexpectedly put him on the path toward becoming a published author. We go back to Jack's first time on skates in Minnesota in…