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
Ridiculous On Being a Mom Brianne: Why do you already have a late fee on your phone bill? Eli: Sorry, I think you have the wrong number. Brianne: You know that line doesn't
Emma Pioneer Day Miracle We gathered aboard the raft, the five of us, unaware of the trauma that awaited us. Bats flew overhead, and the sounds of water churning on the cliffs of rocks
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Hello. Let me usher you into the greatest weekend of the year. PIONEER DAY WEEKEND!!!!!! You guys. This is a magical year because Pioneer Day falls on Sunday so the
Emails Fan Mail Please enjoy the below email exchange I had with an avid fan recently: From: Larry To: It Just Gets Stranger Subject: Pathetic Eli I wanted to let you know that
Podcast Episodes Episode 6: The World of Homelessness This time in Strangerville, we explore the world of homelessness. A senior citizen explains what it is like for him to live on the streets of Salt Lake City. A panhandler catches the attention of a passerby. A detox facility shares some insight and
Jolyn Episode 6: The World of Homelessness Welcome back for Episode 6 of Strangerville! We are still alive, so are still moving forward. Please take a listen and help us get the word out about Strangerville! Every
Ollie Pictures from my Phone & Weekly Distractions Today Brianne told me that I was being moody again and that maybe I needed to get my hormones checked out so I foolishly started arguing with her and in
