Cold

Cold

By Victoria DoughertyFiction
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Cold episodes

  • In Defense of Dark Humor

    This week in the Cold, we're taking a deep dive into humor, particularly dark humor. We're discussing its limits - if there are any - its benefits, and the way humor is often perceived.

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    21 min
  • How Much Romance Can a Man Take?

    This week in the Cold, we address this the very issue of men and their tentative, at times contentious, and most of all secretive relationship to romance. I also have some surprises for you, and you're going to have to listen to find out about them.

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    19 min
  • What Does it Mean to Be an Outlier?

    This week in the Cold, we talk about the observers among us; those who never quite feel like they fit in. Outliers used to be a small, self-identified group of people, but increasingly, at least according to multiple media articles and my therapist friends, more and more people are turning inward.

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    20 min
  • The Longest Shortest Twenty Years of Your Life

    This week in the Cold we're embarking on a retrospective of one of the most epic stories of our lives...that of raising a family. The ups and downs, the suspense, the plot twists and turns, the page-turning madness, the beauty, the meaning, the joy. It's all here!

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    16 min
  • You Say You Want a Resolution?

    On this last day of the year, we're talking New Year's resolutions here in the Cold. Not the usual ones - giving up chocolate, blah, blah, blah - but the kinds of game-changers that have a lasting impact on our lives.

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    12 min
  • Twelve Cold Days of Christmas

    In honor of the coming holidays, we're doing something a little different in the Cold.

    This week's listening experience is more like a song. It’s certainly inspired by a song; one I’m sure you know. You’re welcome to do your best to sing along to the tune of the Twelve Days of Christmas (or you can read the written version by following the link to my blog below). You can rap it, if you prefer. Doesn’t matter…as long as you take it into your heart. Maybe if it stays there over not just these next twelve days, but twelve months, you’ll find the spirit of these words and their concurrent offerings will accrue.

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    21 min
  • Building the Architecture of Our Stories and Our Spirits

    This week in the Cold we talk about the architecture of the soul and the spirit. We're being both literal and metaphorical here, and no, we're not being pompous - swear. This makes for a great start to the holiday season!

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    This episode is also available as a blog post: https://victoriadougherty.wordpress.com/2018/12/14/what-we-build-how-architecture-is-changing-my-relationship-with-my-faith/


    21 min
  • Breakthroughs

    This week in the Cold, we talk about how to facilitate and maintain the momentum of creative breakthroughs. This is an active, deliberate process, my friends!

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    16 min
  • The Stories We Tell Ourselves

    Every year around this time in the Cold, I like to make a comprehensive list of all the things for which I am grateful. It's more than a list, it's one part meditation, one part story. Because the stories we tell ourselves about our lives, how we frame our experiences, are every bit as important as the stories we consume and tell others.

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    15 min
  • Shining Daylight on the Creative Impulse

    This week in the Cold we talk about how even seasoned writers can experience creative stammers and what to do about them! This will be illuminating as hell.

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    18 min

About Cold

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Cold is the storyteller's church. It is the way revenge is best served; the way a war was fought; the way a story should be told. Join fiction writer, essayist, and blogger, Victoria Dougherty, to ponder the creative life, and endeavor to look at the stories we tell and the stories we live with a cold eye, but never a cold heart.