"Singing to August" by Gwen Cooper In today's podcast, Jason and I spoke with Chris Gabbard, currently a professor at the University of North Florida. Chris was born and grew up in Palo Alto, California. He graduated with a Bachelor's and a Master's degree from San Francisco State University and earned a PhD at Stanford University in British Enlightenment literature. His scholarly writing has appeared in numerous academic journals, but it was while wrapping up his doctoral wo

In today's podcast, Jason and I got together to catch one another up on our respective lives (or sh*tshows) and discuss our favorite episodes from the past several months. We find this kind of "reckoning" with one another to be an important part of the podcast and hope you enjoy our banter as much as we enjoyed the conversation! Jason just got back from a fabulous cruise to Alaska with his entire family, and while I initially broke out in hives just thinking about such a trip

I met Amy Silverman in real life when I was asked to "engage in conversation" with her at my local independent bookstore. I knew she was a journalist who had recently published a memoir called My Heart Can't Even Believe It: A Story of Science, Love, and Down Syndrome. Parents of children with disabilities and special needs know one another because of the communities we have created, and I had seen Amy's work online, had friends who knew her and was otherwise familiar with he