Relationships, parties, music, learned optimism, and more: life lessons from an eight-year-old, backed up by psychological research — and shocking yard work incident.

As we close our month-long celebration of 2 years of Shelter in Place, we share some big news. And as we enter April, National Donate Life Month, we share a beautiful story from Laurel Morales of 2 Lives about asking for help when your life depends on it.

As we celebrate two years as a show approaching 200 episodes, it’s time for a little retrospective: we look back the good, the hard, and the peaceful, escaping not out of life, but into it.

On the two-year anniversary of our podcast and the Covid quarantine, we revisit some milestone episodes along the away (one day in, one month in, 100 episodes in), reflect on the past two years, and pick a word for the year ahead.

Ten years ago, our son Gabe was born by emergency C-section. Two years ago, we started quarantine on his birthday. Since then, he's learned a lot — and so have we. So in this birthday episode dedicated to Gabe, here are reflections (and life lessons) inspired by our son.

The Hamptons are the summer getaway spot for rich New Yorkers — and a hot spot for an ecological conflict that is also playing out across the country: deer overpopulation. In this four-part miniseries, Eve Bishop interviews everyone from hunters to animal rescuers, as she wrestles with how humans and animals should coexist.

This week, we’re doing something a little different. Something a little more playful. Something that can be summed up in one word: Mattéa. #memoir #parenting

Go behind the scenes and into the audio expedition that happens every week at Shelter in Place, from initial idea to published episode. There are highs and lows, twists and turns, and finally, the discovery of what makes a story worth telling in the first place.

In a productivity-obsessed culture, the emphasis is always on doing more . . . but what are we really hoping to accomplish with our to-do lists? Today, we hold productivity up to the light, and examine whether or not those pressures to be more productive are actually serving us.

In this episode we reflect on some of our own experiences of death, and get some fresh perspective from Sarah Chavez. She pulls back the shroud on the modern funeral industry, points out how social issues can also affect the dead, and suggests better ways for us all to engage with this natural part of life.