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Pigeonhole Podcast 7: Colleen and Her Guide Dog
Listen to this post: [The podcast episode is at the bottom of this page.] Meet Colleen and her guide dog, Joplin, our first episode in a series of stories from people with their working dogs. Here they are, snuggling. Colleen runs the Blind Inspirationcast with the goal of “changing the world’s perspective regarding visual impairments through motivational…
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Pigeonhole Podcast 6: May Day and the Moon
Listen to this post: (Podcast audio is at the bottom of the post.) Happy May Day, everyone. Don’t forget: President Eisenhower attempted to turn this labor organizing day into a national “Loyalty Day” celebration where people were supposed to reaffirm their love for and loyalty to the U.S. and its “heritage of freedoms.” Odd choice…
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Boom Arts presents the amazing Jess Thom, Touretteshero
Listen to this post: I first heard about Jess Thom several years ago talking about Backstage in Biscuit Land. For that show, Jess delightfully warns audiences, “having Tourettes means I’m neurologically incapable of staying on script, and that’s where the fun starts.” While Jess also uses the name Touretteshero, please don’t mistake her for the one-dimensional…
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Who Am I To Stop It at Whitsell Auditorium
Listen to this post: Thankfully, none of you readers or listeners has ever complained that technically, Who Am I To Stop It has never actually premiered out in the world. We’ve screened on college campuses and in community groups across the US, in Canada, and in the UK. But other than a couple of super-secret,…