Peculiar Journeys

25:08 | Sep 23rd, 2019

Three quick stories from my day-to-day walk managing the casino floor. It is a complete change and yet strangely familiar. Complete with an interruption by Siri that I intentionally left in to give ...Show More

14:50 | Sep 9th, 2019

In this belated episode, I confront my lifelong inability to subsume my own life to prop up those desperately in need. It ain't pretty and I'm not exactly proud but it is what it is...

0:00 | Jul 29th, 2019

And here we go. Truly stories that could only be told from the casino floor (plus my latest toe-dip into the now divested public media landscape).

33:35 | Jul 15th, 2019

In this episode, I take you down the odd rabbit hole of finding and becoming a part of a Live Lit scene that is so small, so insular that only an asshole from Chicago could think he could walk into it...Show More

30:18 | Jul 1st, 2019

My career path (if that’s what you want to call it) is all over the place: professional jazz trumpeter, public school music teacher, part-time construction worker, gas station attendant, non-profit th...Show More

24:56 | Jun 17th, 2019

With traveling to a new city, the inevitable task at hand is gainful employment. This episode follows both Don and his wife Dana as they navigate the hustle required to get work in a city with no one...Show More

22:49 | Jun 3rd, 2019

Moving a couple thousand miles across the country is trying in the best circumstances. When you do the same but with a roommate with some serious hoarding issues, it gets…complicated.

19:33 | May 20th, 2019

“Ten percent of stuff moved across states will be damaged or lost,” he said. Ten percent sounds abstract but the loss of my grandfather’s WWII dispatch box with the treasures of personal stage contai...Show More