October 2026
Vol 2610
Ten stories from the house you grew up in and everything that reached it: the bedroom that became the whole house, the chorus you knew anyway, rumors before the share button, the book fair, the snow-day crawl, back-to-school, the bedroom walls, the toys from the commercials, the Super Soaker summer and the world Home Alone keeps.
- 1 When Your Bedroom Became the Whole House 8 min listen · 6 min read · 7 films
- 2 You Didn’t Have to Like It to Know It 9 min listen · 6 min read · 7 films
- 3 Rumors Went Viral Before You Had a Share Button 9 min listen · 6 min read · 7 films
- 4 The Scholastic Book Fair Made Reading Feel Like Shopping 9 min listen · 6 min read · 7 films
- 5 A Snow Day Started With Watching the Bottom of the TV 9 min listen · 6 min read · 7 films
- 6 Back-to-School Shopping Was a Chance to Reinvent Yourself 7 min listen · 5 min read · 7 films
- 7 Your Bedroom Walls Told People Who You Were 8 min listen · 5 min read · 7 films
- 8 The Toys You Had to Have 8 min listen · 5 min read · 7 films
- 9 The Summer Arms Race 9 min listen · 6 min read · 7 films
- 10 The Time Machine: What Home Alone Preserved About Life in the ’90s 13 min listen · 8 min read · 7 films
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