This is Love

Recently, Phoebe told a personal story about her mother, who died this year. In this episode, she talks to journalist Sebastian Junger, who was rushed to the hospital one day after feeling sick – and then, he saw something strange.

For our 100th episode, a story from Phoebe about her mother, Valentine, who died this spring.

“Every spring it's one of the first birds that I look for. When I hear my first Prairie Warbler, it resets things for me. It gives me these memories of the past, but it also just reminds me of why I love birds so much.”

Writer Andrew Leland talks with Phoebe about slowly losing his eyesight. He was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis pigmentosa when he was in high school. "It was like, 'I'm going out in the woods with my friends at night. And oddly enough, I'm bad at it.'"

When Miguel Esteban was 14 years old, he picked up the phone and called Octavia Butler.