2nd Story

In this week's story, teller CP Chang reflects on one of his oldest friendships and the love and support they have for each other despite their significant personal differences.

In this week's story, teller Khanisha Foster recalls the highs and lows of sending her eldest off to college, and all the new beginnings that surrounded it.

In this week's story, teller Kim L. Hunt shares a memorable trip to South Africa and the cultural and linguistic revelations she experienced there.

In this week's story, teller LaTanya Lane unpacks the many ways we give and receive care and how we sometimes need to process care before accepting it.

In this week's story, teller RJ Silva shares the ups, downs, and surprising changes of his lifelong love for all things culinary.

In this week's story, teller Dr. S shares how one particular musical queen helped bridge both a literal and figurative gap between him and his sister.

In this week's story, teller Vince Pagán-Hill shares his experience helping a pair of close friends grow their family and the love he feels as an uncle to many.

In this week's story, our teller shares how he got past the all-too-common hurdle of supporting your child in a hobby you don't share, especially when it means being friends with the other parents.

In this week's story, we begin a celebration of parenthood with a story about the highs, lows, and loves of foster parenting.

In this week's story, teller PJ Gray recalls a rather harrowing day with a babysitter and the lesson on survival he learned at that young age.

In this week's story, teller Julie Ganey shares how she learned to take care of problems early and the difference it makes when past wrongs get forgotten.

In this week’s story, teller Geneva Norman recalls how, in the wake of an unexpected pregnancy, her community banded together to blaze a path forward.

In this week's story, teller S. Ferdowsi shares the leadup to and fallout from her miscarriage, bringing an honest look at all she experienced in those days.

In this week's story, teller Reshmi Hazra Rustebakke shares how counseling has helped turn her sixteen-year marriage into one long honeymoon period.

In this week's story, teller Earliana McLaurin recalls some of her shaky moments in dating and the friendship that helped ground her.

In this week's story, teller Liz Blondel shares a moment when, in the wake of a tragic loss, she had to learn how to support family through the haze of a language and culture barrier.

In this week's story, teller Tiffany Moten reflects on friends lost and found as well as the way our friend groups grow and change just as we do ourselves.

In this week's story, teller Coya Paz reflects on the way her her uniquely global youth has impacted her identity, her values, and her family.

In this week's story, teller CP Chang shares the many varying emotions and memories of weeks that led up to the loss of father and what we see when those around us grieve.

In this week's story, teller Kirsten Baity recalls the ups and downs of their relationship with their sister and the way they grew together through shared yet separate work.

In this week's story, teller Jess Kadish shares the before, during, and ongoing process of healing from a broken hip, reflecting on the help she learned to ask for.

In this week's story, teller Jenan Mohajir shares the path she followed to finding her name and the pride she's learned to have in representing herself and her legacy.

In this week's story, teller Kimberly Acosta reflects on the depth of her Mexican-American identity and the way it's evolved throughout her life, both as she's gotten older and as the world around her changes.

In this week's story, teller Madeline Bourdenko recalls the pressure of raising two young children and the trip she took that helped her find herself amongst the chaos.

In this week's story, teller Karla Estela Rivera recalls her experience learning to love her sexuality and the way she built a home for her child that would make their own experience open, loving, and joyous.

In this week's story, teller Connie Shirakawa recalls her experience on a pilgrimage to the former internment camp site where her parents met and the community she found among the generations of Japanese Americans she traveled with.

In this week's story, teller Dana Black looks back on her relationship with her grandmother, celebrating the little traditions they found together and how she honored her loss.

In this week's story, teller LaTanya Lane shares how she found, then learned to love, the fighter inside of her.

In this week's story, teller Matthew Braun recalls his struggle with financial and personal stagnation and the way he found satisfaction and community in movement.

In this week's story, we celebrate Pride with teller Timothy David Rey's story of growing up gay in 1980s small town America.

In this week's story, teller Darren Meyers reflects on some recent forays into dating and the way that growing up as an only child has impacted his philosophy.

In this week's story, teller Lynnette Li shares her experience of being caught between caring for her aging father and parenting her growing children.

In this week's story, teller Kim L Hunt recalls the confidence and optimism her mother constantly spread throughout her youth and how it’s followed her into adulthood.

In this week's story, teller Courtney Kotloski shares how she, along with her kids, developed a way to find strength and positivity in the face of fear.

In this week's story, tellers McKenzie Chinn and Mykele Deville look back at the way they found each other through the chaos and violence of the world around them.

In this week's story, teller Wyl Villacres explores the dissonance he felt when young love clashed with harsh reality on a teenage trip abroad.

In this week's story, teller Maegan Gwaltney reflects on the mother she once planned to be and the way we grieve and grow from the invisible losses of life.

In this week's story, teller Abra Millman shares her frantic search for proper documentation before her wedding, and the unexpected place that showed her mercy.

In this week's story, teller RJ Silva shares his experience being pulled between two worlds when he brought his husband to visit his home country for the very first time.

In this week's story, mother-daughter duo Bobbie & Liz Rice share stories of their shared Chinese values and experiences, as well as the ways they've helped each other to evolve and change.

In this week's story, our teller shares the lead up to - and follow up of - her marriage's end, and how she found her path forward through the grief of the transition.

In this week's story, teller Martinique Haller reflects on an act of rebellion from her youth and the understanding - if not forgiveness - that time has brought her.

In this week's story, Stephanie Chavara returns home and wrestles with both the vulnerability of putting down roots in familiar soil.

In this week's story, teller Jim Lupo reflects on his youth spent caring for his ill mother, and how he looks towards his future with that past in mind.

In this week's episode, we celebrate our 300th episode! Join us for a trio of stories along with a bit of nostalgia and reminiscing along the way!

In this week's story, teller Liz Blondel recalls her early college days, and the culture shock she experienced while studying just a few blocks northeast of her childhood home.

In this week's story, teller Ana Martin Sagredo shares the early days of her second child's life, the unexpected hurdles they experienced, and the decisions they made for their family.

In this week's story, teller Nestor Gomez recalls some notable conversations around this year's presidential election, with a particularly poignant metaphor for how he feels.

In this week's story, tellers Gregory and Vince Pagán-Hill share a dual story of sexual awakening and finding a partner to explore with.

In this week's story, teller Jasmin Cardenas reflects on bringing stories into her classrooms from a variety of cultures and languages and how she sees the joy of familiarity in her students.