She Left Me There

Joe Swanberg married the first person he ever seriously dated. When that marriage ended, his romantic life got complicated. Messy, even. He started dating younger women, ended up in an elaborate love triangle, and completely changed his mind about whether he wanted to marry and h ...  Show more

Carla Lalli is well known as a chef and a cookbook author. But after many years in food media, working at places like Bon Appétit, she started to lose her personal connection to cooking. It wasn’t until her 24-year-long marriage ended and she had to start cooking for herself as a ...  Show more

“The idea that they had plucked me from this terrible life…and it was all going to be sunflowers and rainbows and shit…I just view that as a fantasy.”

Producer: Whit Missildine

Episode Summary: A young black g ...

A mysterious tattoo on her forearm was all that linked Sara Jones, who was adopted as a child by white parents, to her South Korean origins. Searching for her birth family taught her that transracial adoption stories often frame new lives abroad as strokes of luck that call for e ...  Show more

"Makeda! Keshon!"Mrs. Abbot, the Head of the orphanage, screamed at us. Keshon swung at me but I dodged his blow and punched him in the stomach. Before I could deliver another blow, Aunty Pearl, one of the workers at the orphanage, held my hand. That night I went to bed without d ...  Show more

i talk about rejection, childhood wounds, first relationships, and the weird shift from love to sex that happens when you grow up. about feeling undesirable, alone, and learning how to not lose myself in it. not a self-help episode. just me trying to make sense of it.