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 magazines, newspapers and literary reviews. On this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes,” a dance class demonstrates that the rules that hold us together, also keep us apart, and we can all learn some new moves in the essay “Fireball.”
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There is a myth about travel— a subliminal promise that the trip will change you and your life in some way—Is it true? Laura Oliver is an award winning writer, author, and developmental story editor whose work is often featured in national newspapers, magazines, and literary journals. On this week’s episode of “This is How the Story Goes,” she shares travel’s most significant lesson in her essay, “Leaving on a Jet Plane.”
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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 journals. When an email appears with an offer too good to be true, a writer puts her disappointment aside to reconnect with a dream and a renewed belief that anything is possible. This week’s episode of This Is How the Story Goes is “Expect Only the Good.”
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Laura Oliver is an award-winning writer, author and developmental story editor whose work appears in national magazines, newspapers and literary journals. Havoc ensues when a miscalculation results in an order of mulch the size of a car. “When a Little is Good, More is Better;” this week’s episode of “How the Story Goes.”
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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.
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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. 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.
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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, 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.
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In this week’s episode of This is How the Story Goes with Laura J Oliver, a woman lifts weights in a gym, in an effort to lift the weight in her heart. The result is both humorous and poignant and she learns that sometimes love and detachment form one compound word.
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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.”
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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 a childhood illness has a lifelong impact, a girl discovers loss seldom comes to call empty-handed. "When Less is More," explores how that can be so, in this week's episode of "This is How the Story Goes."