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8 listeners share the powerful ways they keep in touch with their ancestors
How do you stay in touch with your ancestors? Last month, we asked our audience to tell us about their relationship with family members who have passed away. And we were overwhelmed by their beautiful...
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Ashley Hope Pérez: 'Young people have a right' to stories that help them learn
This essay by Ashley Hope Pérez is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.For over a decade, I lived my...
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Maria Ressa's 'How to Stand Up to a Dictator' is a memoir and manifesto
Maria Ressa laid out her vision for the future of public service journalism over a dinner in a Japanese restaurant in Manila in 2013. Ressa, who made her name in Asia as a correspondent for CNN, had...
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An immigrant family cuts down their first Christmas tree together
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Author Susan Kuklin: These teens wanted to let other kids know 'they are not...
This essay by Susan Kuklin is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S. In 2014, when my book Beyond Magenta:...
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Holidays are about tradition. What happens when everything starts to change?
Some Christmas traditions are pretty standard inmainstream American culture: put up the tree, string up the lights. Hide the Elf on the Shelf, visit grandma, bake the cookies. Then there's the one my...
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How to make space for fun in life
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How to think about rest as a form of resistance
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Six ways media took a big step backward in 2022
As 2022 winds down, it's obvious the past year has been, in many ways, a giant step backward for media.So much has gone wrong: from fundamental shifts in the streaming business to widespread cutbacks...
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Author Jerry Craft: Most kids cheer for the heroes to succeed no matter who...
This essay by Jerry Craft is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.If you are a parent or a caregiver and your...
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How to gamify your exercise to make it more enjoyable
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How to start a practice of mindfulness
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These were some of the 'Weekend Edition' staff's favorite stories of 2022
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Author Maia Kobabe: Struggling kids told me my book helped them talk to parents
This essay by Maia Kobabe is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.In mid-2018 I showed a partial draft of...
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This Congressman-elect swears by (and on) vintage Superman
This week, Congressman-elect Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) made some news by announcing he will (eventually!) swear himself in on a copy of the Constitution, a photo of his late parents, his certificate of...
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Bidding a fond farewell to Eastbay, the sneakerhead's catalogue
Growing up in the 1990s, I was obsessed with the Eastbay catalog. I'd spend hours and hours poring over the latest issue, like a detective combing through mounds of evidence. I'd closely examine the...
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Author George M. Johnson: We must ensure access to those who need these...
This essay by George M. Johnson is part of a series of interviews with — and essays by — authors who are finding their books being challenged and banned in the U.S.It's been nearly 15 months since the...
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For many, family bonds can run deeper than shared DNA
Sirianna Arathi was left out of an important family meeting, one where a couple of her friends, their parents and partners decided she was part of their family – even though she isn't blood related. "I...
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She was stranded on an Alaskan highway. A stranger saved the day
Being stranded in the middle of nowhere, Alaska was not what Vanessa Foster imagined when she decided to leave behind her life in Texas. But that's exactly where she found herself one chilly evening in...
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Why 'lost their battle' with serious illness is the wrong thing to say
The family of Jimmy Carter last week announced that the former president, a cancer survivor who had been in the hospital for undisclosed reasons, was heading home for hospice care.That means those...
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