Podcast Episodes Episode 8: The World of Discovery This time in Strangerville we hear stories from people who leave home and discover new things about themselves. A New Yorker quits her job and finds herself a few months later walking the Camino de Santiago. A drama teacher has a close call hiking
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Yesterday I came home from work and there was enough wedding picnic crap in my house to host all of the wedding picnics Rebecca will ever have in her entire
Rebecca Wedding Picnics This weekend is Rebecca's wedding, which she purposefully planned at the exact times that I have eleventy other commitments. And because Rebecca insists on being a complication in
Emily I. Went. Camping. A couple of weeks ago I got to thinking about how much I hate camping and how I don't trust anyone who claims to like it because it&
Podcast Episodes Shorts: Hospital Bohdan This week on Strangerville Shorts, Eli tells the story of his 2004 Ukrainian appendectomy. http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Hospital_Bohdan.mp3
Ridiculous The 19 Steps of Building IKEA Furniture By Skylar Westerdahl I secretly think there is a small masochistic part of everyone. A tiny desire to make our physical lives match the twisting turmoil that lies within. Or
Life A Colorado Wedding My childhood best friend Sam asked me a few weeks ago to officiate his wedding in Colorado, a wedding that happened on Saturday. Obviously I immediately began preparing FOR MY
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Brianne: AND DON'T YOU DARE STEP OUT OF THIS OFFICE UNTIL ALL OF YOUR CLOTHES ARE PICKED UP OFF THE FLOOR!!!! Eli: What does it matter? They'
Ollie And Then I Met Ruth As I mentioned to you recently, I've been engaged in a new quest to meet all of my neighbors and become the most popular person on the block,
Ridiculous Strangerville Fan Mail Somehow it has been about eight months since Jolyn and I launched Strangerville. If our announcement of Strangerville was equivalent to conceiving a child, you would have to watch the
Podcast Episodes Shorts: Fanmail This week on Strangerville Shorts, Jolyn and Eli peruse a few of the tens of millions of emails they have received to the Strangerville email account. http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Fanmail_2.mp3
The Siblings Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Yesterday someone accused me of "making up" the phrase "the squeaky wheel gets the grease/oil" and this was a pretty intelligent person and it caught
Ridiculous I See Dead People. They're Everywhere. Last week I was on a cruise ship for seven days with my family. It was basically the Titanic. I can still smell the paint. It was an Alaskan cruise.
Matt The Year of Productivity I realized some time ago that New Year’s resolutions work as well for me as they do for most people. I embrace them enthusiastically on January first and then
Jolyn Episode 7: The World of Travel Welcome back to Strangerville, the Titanic of podcasts. Actually, I don't know what that would mean. I might have just insulted Strangerville. UNLESS I was saying that it&
Podcast Episodes Episode 7: The World of Travel This time in Strangerville we explore the world of travel through some stories that may make you just want to stay home from now on. TSA overreaches, figuratively and literally. A 13-year-old girl tries to take explosives onto a plane. A young woman escapes
Pictures from my phone Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions My new best friend/neighbor has 100 billion potted plants in her backyard and since I'm now house sitting for her (you thought I was joking about this)
The Perfects Hi. I'm Your New Neighbor. I walked two houses down the hill to greet my neighbor, a blonde woman, age 50 or so, who rivals The Perfects in magazine-cover landscaping and lawn care. It was
Ollie The Magical World of Broome Bungalow The Broome Bungalow project (Matt's house) is finally about to hit "move-in" date. And everyone is looking forward to this more than any child has ever
Podcast Episodes Shorts: Feed the Birds This week on Strangerville Shorts, enjoy a clip from a BBC Radio 4 segment in which Eli talks about the meaning behind Mary Poppins’s classic song, Feed the Birds. http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Feed_the_Birds_1_1.mp3
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Mr. Pants is sleeping over at my house right now because we love each other and we don't care who knows it. Last night I tried to take
Nostalgia My Favorite Posts With some regularity people will email me and say they just found Stranger and they wonder if I have any "favorite" posts they should make sure to check
Ridiculous We All Wear Masks Ring ring Skylar: Hello. Eli: Someone called you a "hotty mc hotty" in the comments of something I posted on Stranger last week. Skylar: Wait. I'm
Podcast Episodes Shorts: Zelda This week on Strangerville Shorts, Joey Leavitt, a foreign service officer in El Salvador, takes us back to the 80s and tells us how much Zelda means to him. http://traffic.libsyn.com/strangerville/Short_Joey.mp3
Emma Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions How's my night going? Well after a very long day I was in the drive-through at Wendy's at 11:15 PM and I ran my car
