On the day after Christmas, a young Catholic boy meets a girl on a bus and a newlywed couple on a Christmas Card holiday in Colonial Williamburg receives some poignant news.

Three stories of unwanted gifts: a mother's holiday gifts make people cry, a 16-year-old Kentucky boy gets a ‘81 Chevy Chevette for Christmas and a mom struggles to get her daughter the "It Gift" — sort of.

This week on the podcast, we feature two tales of folks trying to make merry in places of struggle. A young social worker stages "A Christmas Carol" in a Baltimore behavioral clinic, complete with a Tiny Tim who steals the show. And a young medic working in a psych ward for soldiers during the Vietnam War reports on the surreal Christmas he witnesses there.

Two stories that show Christmas is complicated.

Two tales of holiday inappropriateness. 

Two stories of Thanksgiving drama. And it’s not over whose turkey is the most tender.

Two young woman perservere against huge odds. Go girl!

Two men tryin’ hard to speak truth to power find themselves caught up in the storm. Baltimore City Councilman Zeke Cohen fights for the immigrant youth in his district….and suffers collateral damage. Dr Chijioke Madugwulike gives a gift...that launches a lifelong crusade.

Two tales of women who live to CREEP PEOPLE OUT!

Three women search for a place to hang their hat, from Antartica to Baltimore to South Africa.