This Is How The Story Goes
Wednesdays between 12 and 1 p.m.
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.
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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 “Renaissance." A woman selling puzzles at a medieval fair, claims she is from the future, and you will hope she is.
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary reviews. When most of the things that hurt us are invisible, where does the healing power of touch reside? In the healer or the healed? This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” is “Fire Talkers” where we explore whether the power to heal is a gift possessed by a few or in all of us.
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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?
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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.”
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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 “Indicators.” A woman asks the universe for a sign and gets it. The hard part is believing it’s real. Join Laura for a reading of her work tonight at the historic The Avalon Theatre in Easton. Doors open at 5:30.
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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 “Farsighted.” How is it possible we can see the galaxy Andromeda, 2.5 million light years away, and not see the right choice to make when it’s right in front of us?
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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 “You’ve Got Mail.” The extraordinary timing of the letters we write and those we save appears to indicate our choices are guided by something other than chance.
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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."
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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.
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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.