mental health

Transcript: A Cruisible of Sorts with Amelia Ray

Amelia Ray and I talk about her adventures performing on cruise ships in the Caribbean. This opportunity proved much more than a 3-hour tour.

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Transcript: The Real Drug Was Checking Out.

Sobriety isn’t just about not drinking booze. It can be a spiritual quest, and a daily practice of being of service to the people in your life.

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Transcript: Panic in a Grocery Store Parking Lot

Suzie Sherman (On location, from my car.) Hello, hello. Festering cesspool. Okay, so I’m sitting, I’m sitting in the parking lot of a well known natural food grocery chain, which under normal circumstances I don’t even like shopping at, because I don’t want to give money to their fucking awful parent company. But here I…

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Transcript: Nancy Au Can’t Sew a Straight Line, or It’s Weird When Death Feels Familiar.

Nancy Au is the author of Spider Love Song and Other Stories. She writes and teaches in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Jenessa Schwartz – There’s Blood In My Stool.

And The Next Thing You Know podcastEpisode 004: Jenessa Schwartz – There’s Blood In My Stool This is my conversation with Jenessa Schwartz. She’s 37 years old, and she’s living with stage 4 colon cancer. She’s also my niece, my sister Cyndi’s daughter. Jenessa has two kids under 10. She was the Womb For Hire…

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Making Death Plans, Petting Bunnies

And The Next Thing You Know podcastEpisode 003: Making Death Plans, Petting Bunnies with Nannette Mickle Nannette Mickle’s work life is a surprising and diverse series of next-things. She’s been a candy and cigarette girl, she’s worked in social services providing housing opportunities for unhoused folks. Back in the 90s, she once understudied as Bobby…

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Transcript: Making Death Plans, Petting Bunnies

Episode 03 Making Death Plans, Petting Bunnies Posted November 7, 2019 Suzie 0:00 This is And The Next Thing You Know, it’s a podcast about how our lives go exactly not as we planned them. I’m Suzie Sherman. My guest today is the multi-talented Nannette Mickle. Nannette’s work life is a surprising and diverse series…

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