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Sometimes, something can be wrong with a person – someone you love – and you don’t realize it right away.

My mom has been on this podcast in a couple of past episodes. Just in the opener, not as a featured guest. And I can tell you, she remembers things. This past summer she turned 84, and she still knows the birth dates of everyone in our family – inclu...

Every other Tuesday, we grab a past question from the Facebook group, then Meredith and Scott answer it and read some of the answers given by other listeners.

The question for this episode:

What's a book you read as a child and still think about today?

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Sometimes you find yourself in a situation that you just never could have expected.

Last month, in Long Island, New York, a woman named Danielle Tammone was at home in her back yard. Just an ordinary day, nothing unusual going on.

That is, until she felt the ground under her feet opening up unexpectedly, and she suddenly found hersel...

When you’re a kid, you have your own unique sense of what’s “normal”.

I grew up in Ohio, so I knew that sometime after Thanksgiving, it was going to start getting cold outside. And we would have snow. Sometimes, LOTS of snow. And I loved it. Of course, as a little boy, big piles of snow just meant having fun sledding and making snow forts. I didn’t have ...