Alex's Dad's Story

Zach and his father enter into an agreement that could change their entire relationship. (9 minutes)

Writing a letter decades after an event that shaped her life was the only way that Nicole Piasecki could make some sense of it.

Producer Zoe Chace compares the letters a person gets and the letters they wish they got.

Alex Blumberg talks to Shane Dubow about a time decades ago, when Shane went sea kayaking and camping with his friends on the beach in Baja California, Mexico.

Alex Blumberg investigates a little-studied phenomenon: Children who get a mistaken idea in their heads about how something works or what something means, and then don't figure out until well into adulthood that they were wrong.

Alex Blumberg takes us to an American classroom where students are reading a classic, The Education of Little Tree, by Forrest Carter.