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. 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.
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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. On This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes” is “Cloud Hill”-- A story of connecting across time. A story of love learned, a generation late.
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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 possibility there is no distinction between “us” and “them” when a man is caught shoplifting. There is only “us.” We all conceal and carry something.
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"Smarty Pants", this week’s episode of Laura Oliver's “This is How the Story Goes,” is a humorous exploration of imposter syndrome and the notion that it’s important to be popular if you suspect you’re not very smart.
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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 week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes,” she explores the notion that when you are raised in a frugal household to possess two of the same item is deemed flagrantly wasteful---until it comes to love—where one alone is not enough.
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Do we live in a multiverse? Are there multiple versions of you? A rockstar? A monk? A being on a planet where it rains diamonds? What does this mean in the here and now?
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In reality, we don’t know good news from bad. Could not getting what we want be the delivery system for receiving all that we do?
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Trapped in the wrong Uber with a driver who does not speak the same language, we learn that we are all passengers.