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We're entering a new era, folx. We're refreshing yet again. The pages are turning. VOTE KAMALA. This song is called "Pace Yourself Finale", the closing song, before the encore, "Fun Falling" (written for my live-in girlfriend, CAITLIN MURPHY), of my Slanted Cabaret performance at Triad Theater in 2023. (This will also be the final track on my next solo album, Honeydo). "Mayday" is the spotlight single from the album, which is out everywhere now! My song "Refresh" is referenced in here, which you can hear on my Stoddard Blackall Music playlist, right here on my page, or on Spotify, Apple Music, etc. under my name! Thank you for watching and listening. Means the absolute WORLD! Make sure to check out "Hiccups Selections", my 2024 album featuring songs from my musical, Hiccups!

Episode 4 is here! In a nutshell, Caitlin and I talk about ROCD and how we've faced it as a couple. So please welcome her to the Hiccuping Mind team. Aside from being the star of this episode, Caitlin gets the honorary title of producer and co-editor! Not to mention "live-in girlfriend"! YouTube was very astute in assigning this picture of us at a renaissance fair a few years back as the episode’s cover photo. I think the snapshot encapsulates our personalities perfectly. My wish is that our vulnerability here can only help couples far and wide who have gone through anything remotely similar to what we have. Keep on keepin' on!

Enjoy this festive single that both celebrates and darkly foreshadows twisted love. July 6 is also the very sad day I lost my mom 4 years ago. So here is a song that is uplifting while simultaneously suggestive of sadness, loss and being lost in uncertain depths. Eryn Harris is the manager of my children’s music business, The Sunny Songsters. Talk about multi-talented! Thank you Nick Anton for co-producing this tune so beautifully! Full album, Honeydo © out in due time.

WHOA! My next guest is also my roommate...and GIRLFRIEND!!! We talk about how OCD has played a part in our relationship. Tough stuff! But she (and we) handled it like a champ. Enjoy this little preview video for now! The full episode is out on July 20th, the same day my "Hiccups: Selections" album drops everywhere!

Please welcome Alison Dotson, author, copyeditor and proof-reader extraordinaire. Unfortunately, this episode was cut short by unseen forces (technical difficulties), i.e. GHOST! While a lot of Alison's really honest and insightful words were not captured in it, this episode still stands out as an important and special take on the PURE O sub-type of the ugly disorder, OCD; I do hope you enjoy! If OCD is taking you as an April Fool today, you know better. You're in control. And sometimes that means admitting you AREN'T in control...of everything.

Hey! This is my tiny desk submission. Here, I'm performing my song, Sweet Janine while sitting on a tiny desk! Thanks for watching, NPR, and everyone else, wherever you are! Find Sweet Janine on my website, Stoddardblackall.com, and on Spotify, Apple Music and beyond.

Kristin Varela talks OCD and how it plays a role in motherhood. We discuss the tendency to confuse our uncertain lives with the certainty and symmetry of movies. We are all the director of our own destiny, but not so special that the world revolves around our anxieties. Hiccups, the single, is referenced as a metaphor for uncontrollable worry. Check out Kristin's favorite slam poet, Neil Hilborn!

Here is the next installment of Hiccuping Mind, the video blog on all the shifting shapes of OCD and how it so strongly affects (and infects) otherwise "normal" lives. This second episode features Kristin Varela, a stay-at-home mom with winning insights on what it's like to be a wife, mother, and functional human while battling obsessions and compulsions. In every episode, we tie the discussion to my musical, Hiccups, on Relationship OCD, to give further depth to the conversation and highlight different songs from the show. "Hiccups", the self-titled single from the double album, contains the overarching theme: "swallow your hiccups" -- accept them -- and KEEP MOVING FORWARD. Thank you for watching and if you like what you see and hear, don't forget to subscribe! Thank you! Song credits: HICCUPS Me as SHILOH Trista Olivas as LIZA Austin Applegate on Guitar Joe Abrams on Drums Andrew Whitbeck on Bass Avery Ballotta on Violin Nick Anton on Cello (Mastered, Jan 2024)