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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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. -
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.
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Why is it so impossible to see ourselves as we really are? Always striving to be better, to improve? Two friends discover that sometimes it requires a look back from the future to see what was always true.
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When a young woman rewrites a blind man’s sign where he sits on a street corner asking for help it becomes clear that words have power, and the right words change everything.
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When bats invade a pregnant young mother’s house while she is alone with two children on a stormy night with no electricity, she learns it is easier to be brave as a unit.