Essays A Flushed Toilet There was a yellow split-level house just on the next street over where Sandy Parker lived. She had a boy my age named Paul Parker. Paul Parker’s large round
Nostalgia Sleep Last Thursday I stayed at my parents' house so I could babysit my mother. She said it was unnecessary, and I think she was probably right, but with dad
Nostalgia Life Is Good It's short day at school—Friday. The bell just rang and you are heading home at 1:45 PM. It's springtime and you're carrying
Law When did we get old? I started teaching a class at the law school down the street from my house last fall. It's a First Amendment class. We read a bunch of cases
Social Distancing Obvious, Even I just came across a picture in my phone from 2015. It's the first picture I ever took with Skylar. We had met in person for the first
Nostalgia Snuffy This time in Strangerville, we’re sweeping the clouds away. Segment Snuffy, by Eli McCann (with contributions by Nicole Kragt, Alanna Coca, Laura Lacko, Catherine Yepsen, and Brice Laris, and
Emily In 1968 This time in Strangerville, Salt Lake City will give you a giant flag to help you cross the street. And then a story about fixing up an old bicycle (written
Ridiculous REAMS. Eventually I moved away from my parents' home. I grew up and changed. My parents changed. You changed. Everyone changed. Except for REAMS. REAMS stayed exactly the same.
The Siblings 8 Seconds of Heaven My sister Krisanda called me last week and left a voicemail to invite me to a school function for my niece, Kate. It was an assembly, with music. Kate is in the fourth grade. I assume this was the Utah celebratory history assembly—the
Daniel Life is Always Sunny in Palau For Strangerville this week I decided to share a story about Palau. The written version of the story may be found below. Please enjoy. And also, don't forget
EMBARRASSING Voicemail Surprise It was 2007 and my roommate, Quinn, had a birthday coming up so I decided that I should throw him a little birthday party. I was going to make a
Dating From Tinder to Temple Today, please enjoy my long-promised story about my first date with Skylar, which I told onstage at Strangerville Live last month. Written version also below. *****From Tinder to TempleBy Eli
Ridiculous Confessions (Woot. Strangerville Live is next week. Get your tickets [https://www.eventbrite.com/e/strangerville-live-tickets-55260600945] if you haven't already. Support Jolyn. She supports you.) When I was 14,
Gay 2018 I sit at my desk at home on this snowy Sunday in Salt Lake City. Two dogs are wrestling at my feet, occasionally humping one another even though both are
Meg The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts of 2018 It's time for one of my favorite Stranger traditions! MAKING A LIST OF ALL OF THE THINGS YOU LOVE ABOUT ME. But for real. 2018 has been an
Ridiculous O.J. Simpson This week, I have a story from when I was 11 years old. I can't believe I waited this long to tell it to you. You can hear
Ridiculous Romy and Skylar's High School Reunion Skylar had his 10-year high school reunion last night so we spent the evening with people who have no memory of the original Jurassic Park movie being in theaters. I
Nostalgia Tara Late last year I messaged my friend Tara on Facebook because she asked people for crock pot recipes and discussing food is the last vestige of that platform in my
The Siblings To Become a Star We had to vacate our Airbnb in Kyiv by 11:00, which was unfortunate because our train didn't leave for L'viv until about 12 hours later.
Russia Forest Accordion The doors to the Sokol metro station were about 50 feet behind me. The trains had stopped running some time ago. It was dark--somewhere around 2:00 in the morning.
Ukraine This is Strange I wandered the city of 3 or 4 million people for a couple of hours, stopping in at an internet cafe for a moment to let my friends and family at home know that I had made it. It was Kyiv Ukraine in 2010,
Ironman Polar Plunge A few weeks ago when I was in San Francisco I got to hang out with Disney Prince Hair Brandt for three days because he loves Full House so much
Nostalgia The Year Of When I was sitting in my office in the hot tropics with ants literally crawling on my feet in February of 2013, I started having a panic attack. It wasn&
Nostalgia 2017 Last year when I wrote my post for 2016, things were pretty bad. I had sort of lost my mind for a minute there. All of the stresses of work
Nostalgia The Top Ten Most Viewed Stranger Posts of 2017 [https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fqxB3Sps5GY/WkKEeee3jFI/AAAAAAAAdoE/NbUVR7z4Zvwcjwfaa9mj00CS5hWxlkPGACLcBGAs/s1600/003.JPG] Wat? One of my favorite Stranger traditions is looking back over the year to put together the Top
