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Doctor Waffle

Dr. Waffle & Friends

An essayist and a memoirist walk into a podcast. Poignant hilarity, and some chat about the writing process, ensues.
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.1: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.2.1: Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.10: For Agnes
It’s a podcast about a play about a soap opera! In this episode, we perform a memoir play Tania wrote about All My Children, and we discuss network TV…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.9: You Can't Always Get What You Want
In this episode, Dee tells a story about a homicidal camel that somehow ends up being about everything else—including Frankenstein, Chekhov, and…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.8: Irrational Fear of Spoilers
In this episode, we explore Tania’s spoiler phobia and discuss the challenges of being related to a memoirist, PowerPoint pedagogy, etiquette, and—as…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.7: Party Poop
Is everyone as neurotic as Deanna about throwing parties? Is anyone? In this episode Tania and Dee explore the philosophy of entertaining, generational…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.6: Birth of a Swiftie
How does a middle-aged woman who has never heard a Taylor Swift song become a die-hard fan? In this episode, Tania recounts her transformation from…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.5: I Hate Eleanor Hunt
Deanna avenges herself on her elementary school nemesis, we discuss the difference between “stories” and “essays,” and we conclude that theater geeks…
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Deanna Kreisel
Dr. Waffle & Friends Podcast!
We're live! Four episodes available now!
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.1: Small Talk
In this episode, Deanna reads an essay about making spontaneous conversation with total strangers and some rules for doing it successfully, with…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.2: I Come From
In this episode, Tania reads a short memoir piece and introduces her suggestible muse; we talk about #Charlottesville, race relations, and Southerners…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.3: Take a Hike
In this episode Deanna disparages a variety of activities and recommends others, particularly walking, with certain caveats. [Major spoilers for Tess of…
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Deanna Kreisel
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Dr. Waffle & Friends Ep.1.4: Lost
In this episode, Tania reads a story, we talk about fear of nature, and once again invoke Michelle Obama’s memoir. [Spoilers for Gone With the Wind…
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Deanna Kreisel
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