Red Door Moments (Episode 112)
Listen here. For many, the Christmas season brings strong sense memories. The smell of fresh baked cookies or crisp snow. The season is full of the nostalgia of large, warm family dinners or maybe a quiet and cozy Christmas Eve where everyone lounges in pajamas by the fire, all the holiday doings done. For some,…
A Week in the Life (Episode 111)
Listen here. INT. MARTIN HOME FRONT HALL- MORNING (SUNDAY) HANNAH enters at the FRONT HALL, she yells to RUTH from the bottom of the stairs. HANNAH (yelling) Ruth! RUTH MARTIN, 11 going on perpetually 11, runs down the stairs. Her hair is not brushed and her outfit is mismatched and wrinkled. RUTH…
I Wish I Had Malaria (Episode 110)
Listen here. I remember thinking that if I could just make it from the house into the car in the garage, someone would drive me to the airport. Once I was at the airport, I would just have to make it to the ticketing counter and through security to my gate. And once I was…
The Next Place (Episode 108)
Listen here. It has been a beautiful summer, hot and dry, but beautiful. The fruit on the trees has been ripening early. Blackberries grow in abundance in the parks and on the side of the roads where we spend so much of our time walking now. With kids home, there is always the sound of…
In Remembrance of the Patriarchy (Episode 107)
Listen here. I was junior before I decided that I wanted to switch my major entirely to religion. I had been studying intervention specialist education at a catholic university that required religion electives that I just kept taking. Before I knew it, I was less interested in my education classes and had racked up enough…
They Never Go To Committee Meetings (Episode 106)
Listen here. Sometimes in life, we have an opportunity to change course. Maybe we get brave enough to finally follow our dreams. Maybe other options dried up. Maybe a little of both. This was one of those times. To study religion and not want to be an ordained minister narrows the path of a career.…
Keep Your Hands Off My Gentle Cycle (Episode 105)
Listen here. There is a long and rich choral tradition in the United Kingdom. Sanctuaries with soaring, vaulted ceilings were made to hold the ethereal harmonies. But there is another place where the acoustics ring out-the locker room at a local swimming pool. It was there during a field day with a group of these…
Just One of Those Days (Episode 104)
Listen here. College kids everywhere get holiday jobs to pass the time and make a little money when they are home on break. This was no different. Generic Christmas songs played through tinny speakers. Cookie cutters and sprinkles of every color and shape lined the shelves and the often trying-too-hard scents of holiday spiced coffee…
Kool-Aid of the Masses (Episode 103)
Listen here. I remember just staring at three beautiful glasses of wine in front of me. The long table on the veranda of the Tuscan Villa was filled with glasses of wine and everyone was just staring. It was a beautiful evening and we were having the most charmed vacation. Our guide, Antonella, had arranged…
Disappointing Jesus (Episode 102)
Listen here. On a fairly typical Thursday night at a dive-y bar in a college town, a bunch of newly twenty-one-year-olds drink cheap beer and hit on their classmates. The wit isn’t usually astounding. Conversations hit the usual marks. Where are you from? What year are you? What’s your major? There were common answers, teaching,…
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