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How's Your Life?
Episode 127
When Minh Nguyen was in school, he didn’t ask anyone to sign his yearbooks — he says he was too uncomfortable. But twenty years later, he started rea…
10 months ago
Cry
Episode 126
In 1971, for his mother’s birthday, Alvin Ailey gave her a ballet. The dance was grueling – sometimes the women who did it bled. “I remember very wel…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Ava and the Pickpocket
Episode 125
“He stole my watch. He stole my jewelry. I stopped wearing jewelry – just to see what else he would steal.” In 2004, Ava Do met a professional pickpo…
11 months ago
One More Time
Episode 124
A visitor to the islands of the Pacific Northwest once described seeing “a forest of totem poles.” But by the time Robert Davidson was born, there wa…
11 months, 2 weeks ago
A Sky of Kites
Episode 123
People in India have been flying kites for hundreds of years – using them to predict the weather, carry love letters, and compete in the air. But the…
11 months, 4 weeks ago
The Throne
Episode 122
In 1964, a landlord in Washington, DC, noticed that his tenant hadn’t paid rent and went to look for him. The tenant wasn’t in the building – but he’…
1 year ago
My Penny
Episode 121
In October of 2006, a press conference was held at a hospital in Denver. During the press conference, a man asked if anyone watching could tell him w…
1 year ago
The World According to Rick Steves
Episode 120
Never check a bag, always bring a journal, and consider duct tape: a conversation with Rick Steves. Say hello on Facebook and Instagram. Follow the …
1 year, 1 month ago
Alone Together
Episode 119
In 1966, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey had been married for three years. They’d bought a house in the suburbs in the middle of England, and had jobs at …
1 year, 2 months ago
The Sea Around Us
Episode 118
When writer Rachel Carson built a house on Maine’s Southport Island, her new neighbor, Dorothy Freeman, sent her a note to welcome her. Rachel wrote …
1 year, 2 months ago