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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In her essay, “The Hard Problem of Consciousness” Laura J. Oliver returns to college decades after graduation to discover perfection was not on the syllabus. This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes.”
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When author Tom Clancy addressed the Maryland Writers Association he had just one message: “Write the Damn Book.” This week, Laura J. Oliver explores what it means not to wait to write, to heal, and to be happy, on “This is How the Story Goes.”
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You can’t change your feelings until you change the words in your head,” says Laura J. Oliver in her essay, “In the Beginning Was the Word. So choose your words carefully and see what manifests on this week’s episode of “This Is How the Story Goes"
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How do you test for what’s important at an annual physical? Can you spell “world” backward? Do you know how to fall? Laura J. Oliver explores what tests are important, what skills we most need to hang onto in her essay, “Apple. Table. Blank.” This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes.”
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Is there an alternative to anticipatory grief? The sadness that comes with realizing everything you love is on loan? In her essay, “Attachment,” Laura Oliver asks, What if loss is an illusion? This week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes.”
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In the story, Step by Step—Laura Oliver takes dance lessons to learn the next step to take in her life. This week’s episode of This is How the Story Goes.
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Laura J Oliver is an award winning author, columnist, and developmental story editor whose work often appears in national magazines, newspapers, and literary reviews. On this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes,” a DNA test reveals surprising results. In her essay, “The Ground Beneath My Feet,” the author must reassess what she knows to be true about who she is and where she came from.
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Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and literary reviews. This week she explores the saying “grief is love with nowhere to go.” But is it? “This is for Beau” is this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes.”
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Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning writer, author and developmental story editor whose work appears in national newspapers, magazines and literary reviews. On a family trip to Florida a child exchanges fear for faith, and with the police closing in, anything could happen. “Walking to Mexico” is this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes.”
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Laura J. Oliver is an award-winning writer, author, and developmental story editor, whose work often appears in national magazines, newspapers, and literary journals. When a child breaks something irreplaceable, remorse is unrelenting. The event only accentuates how impossible it is to protect the most vulnerable among us. “Indefensible Arrangements”—this week’s episode of This is How the Story Goes.