The Longest Shortest Time

EPISODE #74: The Scarlet A

What it’s like to be a mom with the rare job combo of both delivering babies and terminating pregnancies.

EPISODE #73: Love Yurts

A marriage; a miscarriage. A divorce; a guy who looks (and smells) like a caveman. All in this epic love story. (With an UPDATE to last year’s cliffhanger!)

EPISODE #65: Kids Ask About Death

All kids have questions about death, and they can start really young. We brought in an expert to answer YOUR kids’ questions about death.

Picture Books: To Help Kids Understand Death

Picture book reccos from Sarah Troop, who answered kids’ questions about death in episode 65.

EPISODE #57: Sixty-Five Women and a Baby

Remember Three Men and a Baby? Imagine if there were sixty-five of them. But college girls.

EPISODE #45: Love Yurts

A marriage; a miscarriage. A divorce; a guy who looks (and smells) like a caveman. All in this epic love story.

A Grief Counselor on Talking to Young Children About Death

Joseph Primo of Good Grief, Inc. answers my questions on how to talk to young children about death, whether or not they’ve actually encountered loss. Plus, his personal list of preferable vs unpreferable ways to die.

EPISODE #35: Picturing Her

When Giancarlo Roma was four years old, his sister Mary died the day she was born—an experience that he says trained him to write a book from the perspective of an elderly woman.