Story Night

It’s fun until someone loses an eye, or some hair, or something else. Evangeline Esposito had a good idea when she went to a Portland strip club with her friends. At least it was clever. Clever doesn’t always work just right. A word of warning for sensitive listeners or those who might have kids around, […]

Did you ever find yourself somewhere you didn’t expect? Add to it that even though this wasn’t where you thought you’d be, people had expectations for based on where you actually were. Did you make the best of it? Doug Avery found himself somewhere that was clearly not what he expected, in a huge way. […]

Earlier this year Jennifer Chamberlin delivered two prayers in the same week, one at a Bremerton City Council meeting and another in the Senate chambers of the Washington State Legislature. Chamberlin is a humanist and it was a first for all of them. Chamberlin’s stance has also landed her in kind of a visible controversy […]

It’s a road trip edition of the Story Night podcast. Jeff Allen contacted his friend Aaron Duffin in Colorado with the news they were going to the Dead and Company (My apologies. I call them Dead and Friends in the podcast.) show in Boulder. Aaron later said he couldn’t make it to the show, but […]

This is a “Hold my beer” story in spirit if not in fact. Craig Gurney had moved from Idaho to Oklahoma and with some friends in his new state got pretty close to something major. He lived to tell about it, and told us the story at the July 7 Story Night of Champions. He […]

Scott Park tells the story of how a decision made elsewhere was a sacrifice for his father, but in the end prevented a lasting one for his family. Scott told this story at the July Story Night of Champions. He was the eighth speaker that night. We’ve been posting them here in order. One to […]

When the theme is “sacrifice” you know there will be plenty of stories about parenthood. In Episode 50 we bring you another one, this time from Lorinda Esposito. In this story Lorinda talks about her passion for shoes in her younger days, and how that gave way to passion for her kids later. Lorinda told […]

She was old enough to conjure up mountains as a metaphor, though not yet old enough to have ever seen a mountain in person. Genavieve Scott tells the story of giving birth, and walking away. Genavieve created an image of mountains and rivers in the process. There are precise details she remembers, and others that […]

In one part of this story Margaret Loveless said she wasn’t sure the decision she made did any good. That seems to be the question behind every decision a parent makes. Do the decisions we make serve the higher good? It sounds cliche, but it was only through becoming a parent that I realized the […]

In Seth Park we heard another story that required vulnerability. He addressed a topic that doesn’t necessarily get people angry, but they most likely have opinions. Seth was the fourth of nine storytellers at our July 6 Story Night of Champions. So he’s the fourth podcast from that night. Again, apologies for the poor audio […]