Archive

The Stoop Story Archive contains the true, personal tales shared by thousands of everyday people on our stages since 2006. We’re proud of this amazing collection and invite you to listen, browse by topic or storyteller, check out past shows — and share, share, share.

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description	Story Tags
Susan Pompa: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to French fries are her favorite food	cigarettes, french fries, husband
Paroma Nandi: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to story about working at a restaurant near Camden Yards	camden yards, hamburger, outside, tips
Jonathan Thierman: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to wife who was too embarassed to tell him she was allergic to nuts in the 90s and he had to find the hospital quicky	embarassment, epipen, hospital, marriage, nuts, volvo
Charlene Barnes: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to Eating tongue in France	France, suitcase, tongue, veal
Rob Sellke: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to Worked at MCI Center and Kennedy Center (hilarious)	assembly line, blood, caddy, Kenney Center, MCI center, secret service, tips, vomit
Jimmy Rouse: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to How his mentor, the owner of Martick’s, provided him the whimsical inspirationt to open Louie’s	art, bootleggers, cooking, fish, house, life, Louie's, restaurant, stream
Jenn Silverman: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to Making Excel spreadsheet of all the restaurants she and her husband have been to	data, Excel, husbands, restaurant, rituals, wives
Dana Gillet: Off the Menu	March 28, 2019	Click on the photo to hear the story. The Stoop and Baltimore magazine present a Second Stoop show featuring true, personal tales about eating and working in everything from dives to Finding mouse in food	mother, mouse, restaurant, sister, stuart little
Amanda Eby: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Falling in and out of live with teaching in a public charter school	charter, hand sanitizer, middle school, poison, position, teaching, title, yoga
Stephanie Ybarra: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Not getting a theater job allowed her to set of on her own career path	casting, children's, hispanic, latina, New York, theater
Aishah AlFadhalah: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Story of creating a food co op with other refugee women	cooking, culture, farmer's market, food, love, refugee, women
Nikayah Fayson: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Story of taking a risk and moving with her mom to Baltimore from Ohio allowed her to develop a love of theater and get a promising internship	Baltimore, bloomberg, change, city, country, daughters, motherse, moving, ohio, theater
Ava Pipitone: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Story about being attacked for being trans after going through a break up	breakups, crack, crime, empathy, leaks, poverty, slavery, trans, trauma, understanding
Wendy Rumrill: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Ran an Iron Man in response to her mother’s death and her divorce	Athlete, autism, biking, death, divorce, Iron Man, resilience, running, sickness, swimming
Rebecca Ward: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Story about climbing Everest and then divorcing	divorce
Rikki Spector: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Story about being car jacked by two young boys and how she developed love and empathy for each of them	advocacy, car jacking, crime, empathy, politician, poverty, trauma, urban
Charly Carter: No Limits	March 6, 2019	The Stoop Storytelling Series in partnership with Women in Business at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School presented “No Limits: Stories about female leadership, creativity, and resilience,” an evening of inspiring Story about being fired by a democratic senator for being black	1980s, campaigns, democrats, New York, politics, racism, rent controlled apartment, sexism, white man
Melissa Jenks: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Story of how her rescue dog, Gandalf, could turn into an aggressive dog unpredictably.	dog, Gandalf, rescue, walks
Rick Wilson: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Story of how he because attached to Sam the Toucan as a Zoo Keeper	ambassador, animals, attachment, calling, conductor, imprint, life, Sam, Toucan, zoo
Dana Gillet: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. This is the story about how bed bugs killed my marriage. In the process of treating my house for bed bugs packing up all the fabrics,books and whatnots I realized”light	bedbugs, bikini, kids, marriage, pest control, sex, travel
Heidi Bell: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. We have an old french drain which city rats (they were living amongst a compost pile outside the house) used to tunnel into our house via a basement drain opening.	bedrooms, house, kids, pets, rats, traps
Sophia Garber: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. story of thinking Nathaniel the caterpillar would become Nathaniel the butterfly	butterfly, caterpillar, dead, hope, instagram, social media
Geoffrey Danek: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Story of getting two goats and becoming attached	emergency, girlfriend, goats, Honda, lawn mower, parenting, shirtless, traffic, vet
Edward Robinson: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Why he left his corporte job to become a professional dog walker and, eventually, the unipooper	conspiracy, dog walking, Jenna Bush, poop, secrets, service, unipooper, weath
Richard Yost: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019	It’s an evening of tales about connections between humans and our furry, four-legged, and feathered friends — and foes. Meeting his future father in law and helping him on the farm	carroll county, cow, farm, father in law, impressions

Story Title	Story Date	Story Description	Story Keywords
Ree	January 22, 2026
Regina Armenta: Under the Influence	October 10, 2011
Renee Samuels: Bah, Humbug!	December 8, 2021		Regrets around having a white friend who was an unknowing racist
Renee Watkins: Postcards from the Stoop	June 8, 2012
Renee Wilson: Accidents!	January 23, 2014		A father who likes to fart accidentally shits himself in front of his two daughters.	accident, funny, poop
Renee Wilson: Accidents!	January 23, 2014		A father who likes to fart accidentally shits himself in front of his two daughters.	accident, funny, poop
Renee Wilson: School Daze II	September 11, 2014
Renee Wilson: Secrets	September 26, 2013
Retchga: Stories of Strength	October 10, 2019		story about reconnecting with her biological family after having a child of her own	Abandonment, abuse, foster care, Haiti, teen pregnancy
Reuben	June 25, 2026
Reverand Gray: Making Art, Making Change
Rhoda Smith: Healthy Teen		Being discouraged from attending a 4-year college as a teen mother of 2 in the early 80s
Rich Blake: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010
Rich Blake: War Stories	November 15, 2010
Richard Chisholm: A World inside a City, I	April 8, 2011		A man who is the camera man for a film project connects deeply to one family who he is following and expereinces the death of their son	death
Richard Doran: Bah, Humbug!	December 8, 2021		Relationship with young girl lead to him not realizing she was stealing from him
Richard Ford: What I Did for Love	February 15, 2007		(He’s really annoying) Story about how he fell in love with his second wife, Jan Baum and courted her by leaving furniture he made on her porch	career, divorce, furniture, new professor, new romance, oregon, teachers
Richard Gorelick: My Nemesis	April 5, 2007		Story about how Richard’s nemesis was Center Stage where we were ahem holding the Stoop show.	baguette, Carrie Bradshaw, Center Stage, Moby-Dick, respect, seat at the table, work
Richard Huganir: Eureka!	May 20, 2013
Richard Meltzer: Cool. Cruel. High School	June 5, 2010		Lab school admin who was a bad student	50s, high school, rebel, youth
Richard Meltzer: O Little Town of Baltimore	December 20, 2010
Richard Messick: The Show Must Go On!	May 22, 2017
Richard Messick: The Stoop Says “I do!”	June 9, 2011		In 2003, a gay couple decide to get married in Niagara Falls after 25 years of being together. They couldn’t stop crying during the ceremony. All happened during a huge	catholic, gay wedding, niagara falls, part of the club
Richard Yost: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019		Meeting his future father in law and helping him on the farm	carroll county, cow, farm, father in law, impressions
Rick Wilson: Creature Feature	February 12, 2019		Story of how he because attached to Sam the Toucan as a Zoo Keeper	ambassador, animals, attachment, calling, conductor, imprint, life, Sam, Toucan, zoo