Intensity Without Mastery: Recent Episodes
Michelle Cole
Listen to the companion podcast to the blog Intensity Without Mastery, where I dabble in many things yet master none of them. I would call myself a dilettante, but can a working-class, middle-aged woman from the Rustbelt really be one? Doesn't such a term imply independent means?
Do you have any oddball symptoms that herald a night with lucid dreams? #dreams This episode is also available as a blog post.
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Listen to some of my more melancholy reflections on what it was like to be an essential worker at the height of the U.S. Covid-19 pandemic. #covid #pandemic #essentialworker #capitolsiege #grief #workingclass
This episode is also available as a blog post: http://intensitywithoutmastery.com/2021/06/26/pandemic-memories/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
In this episode, I offer musings on death sprung from mishearing the title of a poem. Per usual, I try to offer some levity when discussing heavy subjects. Sometimes the results are somewhat irreverent. The mishearing of song lyrics is a much-discussed experience, but I've misheard audio in most forms imaginable. #death #memoir #loss #blog
This episode is an autoconversion of one of my blog posts: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/09/02/elegy-in-a-court-churchyard/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode an autoconversion of a blog post I wrote nearly five years ago. I wish that there was an option to vocode the synthetic voice, for it would be a fitting choice for this episode. #fashion #memoir #fashionfails #humor
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/07/05/the-fashion-fiasco-of-1987/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
Early 80's videos made impressions so deep they could seep into the subconscious. #memoir
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/07/25/sweet-dreams-are-made-of-this/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode is an auto-conversion of a post from my blog Intensity Without Mastery. In the beginning I refer to a photo I took. If you'd like to see the photo, please follow the link below.
memoir #80s #timetravel This episode is also available as a blog post: http://intensitywithoutmastery.com/2021/06/12/memory-of-haunting-thoughts-about-time-travel/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2019/09/21/is-autism-really-three-times-more-common-in-males-than-females/
Sometimes missing persons cases take decades to solve. It so happens that my late great grandfather was a person who went missing from Minneapolis in 1923, and the truth was not found out until 2016! Really! He vanished without a trace from one family and started a new life under a new name.
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/07/09/bring-us-your-ancestors/
dreams #luciddreams This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2017/07/22/lucid-dream-the-river-styx-recast-as-a-midcentury-town/
This episode is an audio conversion of a blog post I wrote about a lucid dream I had around the time Chester Bennington passed away.
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
farts #flatulence This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/08/26/bunkerbuster/
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This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/there-are-divine-things-more-beautiful-than-words-can-tell/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/06/27/past-self-diagnosis-whether-absurd-debatable/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode is an auto-conversion of one of my early blog posts. It's a reflection on the loss of one of my friends. #mentalhealth #depression #grief
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/06/25/how-do-you-solve-a-problem-like-cecelia/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
dreams This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2016/06/30/dreams/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
dreams This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2019/06/03/last-fridays-dream/
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/corona/
It is auto-generated from a March 2020 blog post on my early impressions of the Covid 19 pandemic.
This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app
dreams #grief #luciddreams Have you dreamed of your lost loved ones?
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://intensitywithoutmastery.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/dreams-about-mom/