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In a story about keeping secrets, we learn that gratitude can break your heart in the best possible way. Laura J. Oliver shares the story of two friends, one birthday, and one memorable surprise in "God Only Knows," this week's episode of "This Is How the Story Goes."

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national magazines, newspapers, and literary reviews. When a busy young mother impulsively takes a bouquet of flowers to the widow next door, the result can only be called “divine timing” in “Lightning Magnets,” this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes.”

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 season of graduations and weddings, she explores just how fast things can change, in the cosmos and the family orbit as well, in her essay, “In the Blink of an Eye” -- this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes."

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” explores the concept of “infant time.” Babies have no concept of before, after, later, or momentary—so when a young mother leaves her baby overnight, and returns to find the child inconsolable with grief, she learns that there is no before, after, or momentary in motherhood as well.

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes,” is “Fifteen Minutes from Now.” Next time you are meditating, or even feeling a little down, imagine you have only 15 minutes to live. Urgency is a useful tool and an inspiring teacher.

Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national magazines, newspapers and literary reviews. On this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” a woman gets caught trying to leave a note hidden for her grandchildren to find, and realizes that leaving notes has a long, varied, and often hilarious, history in her life.

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines and literary reviews. For those who travel a lot, the world can look very much the same. Oak trees in Maryland look like oak trees in England, just as the deserts of Utah resemble the landscape of Mars. It is not so much what is new that delights us, as what doesn’t get old in the story “Flight Time”--- this week’s essay on “This is How the Story Goes.

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines and literary reviews. This week, on “This is How the Story Goes,” a woman finds a surprise in the mail that makes her ask whether some relationships started before we were born and will continue even after we die.

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” is “Mass Transit.” How is it the absence of spirit is so palpable when something dies? And how is that more evidence of life than death?

Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” is “The Physics of Hope.” In the world of quantum physics anything is possible. It just depends on where you place your attention.”