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Out of the Ordinary

Dec 28, 2022

This is the story of a neglected garden and a disappearing act.

This is the first half of a two-part conversation on why we're beginning this new year by saying "No!" loud and clear.

Ordinary life is a gift offered to each one of us, but did you know that ordinary life isn't actually inevitable? That ordinary life--with...


Dec 21, 2022

This is the story of having a champion. Especially one who doesn't look, talk, act, or sound like a champion.

This is the story of surprise characters who become plot twists in our teenage memories.

This is how people are very often very different than what we expect them to be. And how two unlikely guardian angels...


Dec 14, 2022

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This is the story of a terrible, no-good, but oh-so-hilarious Christmas card photo.

These are stories about the things we will NOT be doing this Christmas season.

Does the approach of Christmas feel a little less joyful than you wish it would? Are you already tired? Already feeling inadequate to the...


Dec 7, 2022

This is the story about strawberry jam and Wednesday night parenting. Because this is the story about how our podcast got it's name. Buried deep in the thick of the most ordinary things we could think of was the surprising discovery that everything we valued most might easily be described as ordinary, if not even boring...


Nov 30, 2022

This is the story of eating a 3 course dinner soaking wet in the middle of a rainstorm in Zimbabwe.  And the story of yellow leaves falling in the middle of summer in Pennsylvania. And how we have often both been so desperate in our dissatisfaction it took us years to find the antidote. But in this episode we share what...