SOAPBOX

We’ve all been there: long road trip, someone else is driving — and nature calls. Phoenix writer Barbara VanDenburgh remembers that well in our latest SOAPBOX essay on the theme road trip.

Phoenix musician and writer Jason Woodbury's got a road trip story for the dogs.

Ayana Hamilton kept looking — but never did find herself on any of the road trips her family took when she was growing up. Turns out, she was looking in the wrong place.

They say you can never go home, but Tempe writer and performer Kim Porter proves that wrong.

No one has "get pulled over by the cops" on their road trip bingo card — yet somehow it's happened to many of us. The key, as Phoenix educator Carrie Deahl learned, is to not let it ruin the rest of the trip.

For Phoenix writer Nina Newell, a long-ago childhood family road trip offered a lesson she'll never forget. You can never truly leave home.

There’s something fishy about The Show's next Eating Christmas essay. Local writer Devin Kate Pope explains.

A little white lie led to something much more — and more cherished — for Tuesday Mahrle. She tells more in her Eating Christmas essay.

Growing up in rural Arizona, Phoenix storyteller Christopher Hooper spent a lot of time in one particular room of the house. Here's the latest essay in this year's Eating Christmas series.

We continue our collection of conversations about food and the holidays with a story from The Show producer Ayana Hamilton. She’s got a complicated relationship with Santa.

Over the next few days we’ll be sharing some of this year’s true stories about food and the holidays, starting with the holiday season Kathy Cano-Murillo tried to help her father make tamales.

Arizona storyteller Susan Lacke is an accomplished academic with fancy degrees. She also happens to be deaf. This is the story about the one college class that tripped her up.