Abbey Normal

#3 Women were not making it up the corporate ladder so WEN takes things into their own hands. They create development opportunities to help women showcase their competency and feel more confident. How do you make change? This series follows a group of women within a male-led organization as they rise up, and speak up.

#2 An anonymous activist drops a bombshell- the "Break Ceilings" campaign.  Are their demands met with action or PR garbage?  How do you make change? This series follows a group of women within a male-led organization as they rise up, and speak up.

#1 How do you make change? This series follows a group of women within a male-led organization as they rise up, and speak up. Their story begins, as many resistances do, with reading books. Then someone takes it to the next level.

When the feeling hits and there's nowhere to go. A fitting close out to 2020.

In this "Back to the Notes" episode, we determine if the relationship advice offered by 12 year-olds still holds up. Plus we'll enjoy some heart-crushing and humorous breakup stories.

One family's creation story - smuggling in secret compartments, machine guns, some holy passion, and a gang of feisty children.

We're all using coping strategies right now. Some healthy, some less so. 

Abbey was a naughty little middle schooler, who would have made her teachers lose their sh*t in this remote learning model. We talk to parents, teachers, Administrators, and kids about how it's going and what could be different. (Hint: *Vote*)

Lety avoids conflict in high school, but when she shows up at college she makes a series of decisions that cost her dearly.

Annie reconnects with estranged family...during a pandemic of course.

Take a trip to the creative side of Seattle - music, theater, and illicit drug use.

Barrett and her BFF had a journal they passed back and forth in high school. Where is it today?

Trauma can be a fork in the road that sends us on a path we didn't choose. We put old puzzle pieces together, attempt to heal, and share how it feels to finally get an accurate mental health diagnosis.

How do you find joy (and a good laugh) in the midst of grief? Darlene shares The Photo that provided levity at her father's funeral. Plus, a PSA - Get Your Colonoscopy.

"I'm not sure how much you know...." is not a statement about your family that you want to hear. For Sarah, it struck fear into her heart (and a teensy bit of curiosity).

It's our birthday! Abbey Normal is ONE YEAR OLD. We were mere ignorant bebes in 2019. Do you feel the same? Let's talk unemployment, the politics of the desperate, and learning how to give all the shits about other people. (With a celebratory pile of white claws on the front lawn.)

A year ago on the 4th of July I posed this elementary school style question: What's your favorite thing about America? Do the answers I got then still hold up? 

If you have feelings about Ryan Gosling's butt in that one scene in The Notebook does that mean anything in particular? Doms been figuring that out while Kileys been throwing back fakers on Bumble. Like, WOW!

As a biracial child in West Virginia, M was always the odd-ball out. No friends to sit with at lunch, no seats for her on the bus. But this is no sad tale. She discovers her wild & wonderful life and claims the home that made her.

Welcome to the lil island of Catalina, California. Sunshine, waves, and stories infused with wine.

Lety expresses a new emotion - "Livid" -  during an All-Company Zoom meeting.

Families choose to take their shelter on the road - makin memories, learnin lessons, and remaking themselves as they go.

Remember how fun going places was? We talk to an OG Lyft driver about her experience providing an essential service: transportation + bartender-style therapy.

We're in this together. So this story is about a hippy chick who joined an extreme team, and what happens when the shiteth hath hit the faneth. 

What do humans and birds and STDs have in common? We're talking about avian disease and the humans who unintentionally come into contact with it. Plus, attempting to get healthcare in an ag town.