A brash young climber meets his match up Shakespeare Glacier. Today’s story revisits a key moment of reflection — and its consequences — in this tale from our January 2014 show, “Scars.” Continue reading
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Podcast #46: Welcome Home
“For the first six months, do nothing.” That was the advice that Quintin Mecke got as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa in the early 1990s. This is the story of how his not heeding that advice landed him an invitation to the annual regional gathering of witch doctors, staring into a fire … Continue reading
Podcast #21: Sleepwalk To Me
In the words of today’s storyteller, let’s take a moment and thank Craig Newmark. If it weren’t for him, where exactly would most of us get our crazy roommate stories? Thank you Craig for giving us many of us places to call home as well as our 21st podcast which was told live at the Red Poppy Art House for the September 2012 show, “Roommates.”
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