This Is How The Story Goes
From a hilarious account of being kicked out of a Pilates class to an astonishing precognitive dream, “This is How the Story Goes” is warm and generous storytelling at its best. These intimate tales inspire universal wonder and thought-provoking possibility, as listeners reconsider what they think they know of reality, reconnect with their best memories, laugh, reflect, and come to like themselves a bit better.
With a voice reminiscent of David Sedaris, Anne Lamott and Garrison Keillor, Oliver charms, informs, heals, and entertains. Every story is a love story to listeners and to life itself, with joy the secret subject of every episode.
Latest Episodes
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The French don't say "I miss you, " they say, "You are missing in me." Three sisters gather to explore the longing we all share in Laura J Oliver's essay, "The Way Makers." This week on "This is How the Story Goes." -
When carpenter bees threaten the structural integrity of her house, essayist Laura Oliver is forced to confront our impulse to protect what is vulnerable even when it's destructive. This week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," is "Love Will Be the Answer, Let it Bee."
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On "This is How the Story Goes," Laura J Oliver learns that sometimes a dented fender reveals something much larger. This week's essay is "Boom Town," a story about accidents, broken pieces, and the people who help us carry them.
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When a fifth-grade boy is run over by a powerboat and comes back to school injured, a classmate who is drawn to heal him has a dream.
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How the brain memorizes and how the heart memorizes are two different processes. One requires effort (like converting Fahrenheit to Celsius), the other, does not. What do you carry in memory and why?
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The place we grew up and the places we have lived have imprinted themselves on our psyches, but is it possible that have we left something of ourselves on the land?
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When you adopt a dog, “Come!” is a command, but “Stay” is a request that can only be honored for a decade or so. Willingly loving what you know you will lose is the paradox we were born for.
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Alone in a crowd is still alone but a lesser lonely. At a dockside concert it becomes obvious that an invisible energy connects us—something that we need as much as the food that sustains us, or the air that we breathe.
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A writer receives a smug, unnecessarily cruel rejection and learns not only to separate herself from the judgment of others but to pass that gift on.
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Five heifers have disappeared from a Virginia farm and are on the lam; underdogs we root for, they are enjoying their freedom on borrowed time. If you are an American you owe the democracy you enjoy to another group of underdogs, who fought for your freedom against all odds.