Stories for Grown-Ups Podcast
1) My Story: The Whimsical Whale on the Corner
My story today is centered around the idea that many people make their permanent homes in places where most people only vacation. There were never any curtains here. Something about the beach air mad...Show More
2) My Story: Instructions for Care
My story today is about the way we can put our trust in perfect strangers - like our hair stylists. Maralyn insisted on maintaining the often-seen short spiky hairdo that older woman gravitated towar...Show More
3) My Story: At Night I Dream of Mermaids
My story today revolves around something most of us thoroughly enjoy – sleep. But what if you didn't need to sleep anymore. How would you spend that extra time in your day? Stella had started a late-...Show More
4) My Story: The Days Between Heartbeats
My story today echoes in silence - from children, from heartbeats and from the things that we do not say to the people we love. At pickup time my sister is late. Or rather she is always late for our ...Show More
5) My Story: Bus People
My story today is built around the idea of strangers on the bus. The shared intimacy of taking a long trip together can take its toll on people - both for the good and the bad: A thin young man in hi...Show More
6) My Story: Once Upon a Midnight Summer
My story today is set in the same way all parents tell stories to their children: With certain details omitted. What you want your children to know and what actually happened are two completely separa...Show More
7) My Story: A Brilliant Shade of Blue
Sometimes a story buzzes around in my head for a while before I am able to get it right — this is certainly the case with my story for today. I like to ask people what their first memories are of. For...Show More
8) My Story: When It’s Enough
My story today is a little more personal than most of my others, because the mother in the story is based on my own mother — a woman I greatly respect, admire and love. Children retain so many memo...Show More
9) My Story: The Virus Is the Cure
A familiar, soft buzzing noise is at the heart of my story. It's amazing how that little buzz/ping/beep has integrated into our days. There is the phantom buzz where you think you heard your phone,...Show More
10) My Story: The Separated Life of Annie Good
My story today focuses on the idea that we all have very different childhoods. But what if yours was so unusual, you had to hide it? In The Separated Life of Annie Good, we meet a woman who lies about...Show More