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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.

A hot air balloon flight is a mesmerizing lesson on the physics of love and the physics of sound.

In three-quarters of the world’s cultures reincarnation is accepted as fact. Is one lifetime enough? Maybe not, but for reasons other than those you imagine.

A woman discovers she has an unusually high percentage of Neanderthal genes. What if all races go the way of the Neanderthals? A humorous look at where we are going, where we have been.

When a child nearly dies, a parent has to reassess the inevitably of letting go. Not to be the wind that carries the boat home, but the sea beneath, carrying that vessel wherever it needs to go.

At a college reunion we ask the only questions that matter now: “Did the choices you made serve you? Would you do it all over again?” “How do you remember me?”

Tidal waves, house fires, failed brakes, there’s a plan. We want to be heroes but for most of us that will mean days and years of quiet, unheralded love and sacrifice. Where do heroes come from and what is their legacy?

A mother gives her daughter an awful piece of art as a wedding gift. Brain science says secret-keeping disconnects you from your sense of self, but sometimes your sense of self depends on keeping a secret.

Today, "This is How the Story Goes," explores the evidence that human beings have loved each other since before spoken or written language. Join Laura J. Oliver for this week's essay, "The Story of Us," to learn how we know that is true.

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. In this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes," she shares "Cowboys are My Weakness," a story about tolerating the intolerable in summer camp.