How to Tickle Yourself

24/10/2024

Answer: Yes.

After recovering from a traumatic vocal cord injury, the country-rock genius is currently on a miraculous hot streak, playing three-hour sets with virtuosity, soul, and some remarkable cover songs.

18/10/2024

Hey friends! My old friend Tanya Preminger has written her second picture book, Two Noses Are Better Than One.

It’s a charming little tale about a dog, a cat, and some hedgehogs, with beautiful illustrations!

And it’s free for the next few days!

Two Noses Are Better Than One: A fun adventure for toddlers who love animals (Mia's World Book 2)

11/10/2024

Duff's top 3 reads of 2024 include God Talks with Arjuna: The Bhagavad Gita and two other amazing books. Discover what makes these books unmissable!

26/01/2024

We are big fans of Swami Vivekananda at Rockledge

17/12/2023

From Self Love, the Original Dream by Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

16/11/2023

The Hafiz poem from our interview with Margo Steines last week

07/11/2023

How to Write About Pain

Today’s guest, Margo Steines, is the author of the recently-released and captivatingly titled memoir Brutalities: A Love Story. A professor, creative coach, and editor on the faculty of the University of Arizona Writing Program, Margo teaches small-group creative nonfiction writing classes and seminars. As she describes them, they are the classes she wishes she had found when she was a fledgling writer: warm, generative, and trauma-informed, with value placed on process before product. So she’s helping people find their voice. We are very much in favor of that on this show.

Trauma, as it turns out, is a central theme in Brutalities, her memoir of a couple of decades spent in parts of the world and of life that most of us have only heard about: a former professional do******ix, Steines takes her readers on a journey through S*M parlors, mental institutions, hospital detox wards, antidepressants, and a couple of su***de attempts thrown in for good measure. It might seem a little counterintuitive to be discussing the memoir of a former do******ix on this show, especially one that explores, in graphic detail, what it’s like to both give and receive (with consent) the most extreme kinds of physical pain imaginable. But Margo Steines finally found the tickle on the other side of all that suffering. She’s here to tell us all about it.

02/11/2023

Cool.

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02/11/2023

From Self-Love, The Original Dream.