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Becoming Fairy Godmother: Egg Donation and Creating A New Kind of Family
Two years ago Julia Winston was asked to help a gay couple start a family by donating her eggs. At the time, she was 38, single, and had no idea…
April 2, 2024
From the Archives: About Bob
We are taking a break this summer (not a vacation!) to produce new stories, so we are sharing some of our favorite episodes while we’re working. This episode was first…
July 25, 2023
From the Archives: Witness
We are taking a break this summer (not a vacation!) to produce new stories, so we are sharing some of our favorite episodes while we’re working. This episode was first broadcast…
June 27, 2023
Nora Needs a New Dad
Nora’s dad died in 2014 from pretty much all of the cancers, leaving her mom Margaret without her life partner of almost 50 years … and leaving Nora without a…
February 14, 2023
Debt, Lies, and Other Things Our Parents Leave Us
Identity theft is something many of us are familiar with, but we have a specific image of what this looks like – our data being stolen online, or someone getting…
February 7, 2023
Born Fat
Genna is fat. They are also queer and nonbinary. All of these things can make a person feel marginalized in a straight, cisgender, thin-obsessed society … but for Genna, it’s…
September 6, 2022
The Missing Puzzle Piece
Chelsea’s mom and unborn brother died in a car accident on Chelsea’s first birthday, leaving little Chelsea and her grief-stricken father behind to piece back together their shattered life. As…
June 28, 2022
Motherless Day
Some holidays are just more loaded than others, depending on our individual experiences. When you’re grieving the loss of your mother — either because they’ve died or because you don’t…
May 3, 2022
Liam and the Letters
Liam was raised as a girl, but from a very young age he knew that just … didn’t make sense.
February 22, 2022
26 Pages
Many people who have autism are diagnosed at a young age. But today’s guest, Grace, wasn’t diagnosed with autism until she was 27 years old. In the months since the…
February 2, 2022
These Are Your Confessions
We recently made an episode called “The Grudge Book” filled with your grudges, and the feedback was SO strong. People felt validated. They laughed. They connected. So Nora got to…
January 26, 2022
The Grudge Book
About six years ago, Nora took a notebook and wrote down all of the grudges she was holding against people … and then, she left that notebook in a seat-back…
September 14, 2021
Happyish Holidays 2020
This episode features conversations with people doing the best they can in difficult circumstances. Like Dr. Lucy Kalanithi, whose husband Dr. Paul Kalanithi was a notable and rising brain surgeon…
November 24, 2020
Ride Through It
Lyndsey and her mother have a shared love of horses. They both compete in dressage (Google it). They ride together after their daily farm chores are finished. But Lyndsey is…
September 1, 2020
For The Next Ten Minutes
When you believe that love will never, could never happen to you, it feels like a miracle when it finally does. This is the story of a young man named…
March 24, 2020
