Life as it Comes Podcast: Recent Episodes
Theresa Boedeker
Life happens, but rarely as expected. These amusing short stories and observations by author and storyteller Theresa Boedeker focus on the quirkiness and surprises of life. Because everyone needs a smile, . . . perhaps even a laugh. Ask questions, give your opinion, and and share your own funny stories at www.TheresaBoedeker.com
It seems many things in life happen gradually. Sneaking slowly up on you and then yelling boo! This happens in my life all the time. Most recently in my shower.
The flu is brutal. It can lay you low for awhile. And when you do get up, you feel like a wrung washcloth that is dehydrated and limp.
When I knock on the door of my dad's bedroom in the middle of the night and he asks me what I want. All I can manage to say is, I have a surprise for you.
Why are we all born with one fatal flaw? The worry flaw. The need to worry about anything and everything.
Communication can be hard. And sometimes we are both talking about different things and thinking we are on task, when we are not.
Sometimes the problem you are describing to customer service is so weird, they don't believe you.
When it sounds like a cannon being fired from a roof, it is often something entirely different.
My life is full of making mistakes, or what my daughter and I refer to as 'pulling a Theresa.'
For little boys, sometimes the grass is greener in the yard, and they feel their duty is to douse it, and douse it good.
Sometimes when a sock gets a hole in the toe there are lots of possibilities for its second life.
So who is using all the toilet paper in our house and how come they never replace the used rolls?
Giving Noise Putty to boys at my son's birthday party doesn't produce the best results.
My 12th summer, my brother, sister, mom and I canned 1,243 jars of fruits and vegetables. We desperately needed Canners Anonymous, but couldn't find one.
Tidying a garage is not always as easy as it seems, especially when it involves a tarp and ropes.
When spiders starts crawling into my dry and warm basement every fall I have several methods for dealing with them and their cousins, aunts, and uncles.
Sometimes a quick trip to the grocery store and self-checking a cart of groceries turns into your worst nightmare.
Most people think spraying is easy. Little do they realize the self-control, the analytical math mind, and the sense of timing that accompany this job.
A camping trip goes crazy when a squirt gun wielding guy tries to take out all the flying insects.
Bunny Foo Foo, a small young bunny, has been sneaking into my yard to fill himself up in the early morning and in the cool of the evenings on the tender young parts of my perennials.
Chaos develops when we learn how to play Fictionary, a word game that takes an active imagination and the talent of making something unbelievable seem like truth.
When my spendthrift sister and I try to book a trip together using hotel point, we run into a bit of a snag.
This episode tries to get the answers to some of life's mysteries that haunt us in the middle of sleepless nights. Questions like, when to call a company so as not to be put on hold as soon as your call is answered? Where does the deja-vu feeling come from? How long can two people take a shower before running out of hot water?
Sometimes you think you have breakfast under control, and then a waffles gets stuck in the waffle iron and your day suddenly turns into much different experience.
Sometimes people make us doubt our self, which can lead to a disastrous overhaul of some area of our life. Sometimes though, we need to just keep being our self.
This story is about those peace invading, pesky, almost invisible fruit flies that move into one's house and remain as unwelcome guests.
When a fishing trip ends with a jump into icy water, and years later finally a catch of fish.
Learn what happens when you show up on the wrong night and the inevitable mishaps that follow.