Audio Ashes is a podcast about what remains after loss. Each episode is an intimate conversation about the ashes of loved ones, memory, and the quiet, ongoing relationship we have with those we love and lose.
Audio Ashes
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9 episodes
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Podcast Overview
Audio Ashes is a podcast about what remains after loss. Each episode is an intimate conversation about the ashes of loved ones, memory, and the quiet, ongoing relationship we have with those we love and lose.
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Publishing Since
12/3/2025
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Recent Episodes
January 15, 2026
Robin
<p>Robin reached out in response to my call for conversations.</p><p>She couldn’t travel to the Berkshires when her sister scattered their mother’s ashes alongside their father’s, decades after his death. Instead, her sister saved some ashes for her. Robin keeps them in her mother’s old jewelry pouch and carries them with her to political marches.</p><p>We met at her light-filled home at the end of a leafy cul-de-sac, surrounded by color and art. As we sat together, she spoke about her mother, their loving yet strong relationship, and how her mother’s ashes continue to be an active presence in her life.</p><p>This is Robin’s story.</p><p>NOTE: Her father made the sculpture in the photo that sits next to her mother's ashes. She speaks about it in the interview.</p>
January 8, 2026
Laurie
<p>Laurie responded to a call for stories while I was visiting another city. She keeps the ashes of both her mother and stepfather in her home. When I arrived, her house was filled with the warmth of Christmas and Hanukkah — stockings, lights, and a quiet sense of family.</p><p>We talked at her kitchen table, where she shared memories of a deeply loving mother and a stepfather who became a steady, devoted father figure. Death was never discussed in her childhood home, so her mother’s wish to be cremated came as a surprise, and the silence around loss left her carrying an unspoken fear.</p><p>As she showed me the containers holding her mother’s and stepfather’s ashes, she pulled out a photograph of her mother as a Girl Scout and another of herself at the same age. The resemblance was extraordinary.</p><p>This is Laurie's story.</p>
January 7, 2026
Claudette
<p>Claudette was the first person I spoke with outside a home. She lived six hours away and happened to be visiting when we met.</p><p>She spoke about her parents, her deep love for her father, and a mother who never once said “I love you.”</p><p>As with so many of these conversations, it’s the quiet, human details that stay with me. Claudette carried her father’s ashes through his childhood home, a place now crumbling and unlivable, yet still holding the story of where he began.</p><p>For much of her life, her mother kept her from her father, disapproving of his background and family. What remained was a relationship shaped by love, distance, and restraint.</p><p>This is Claudette’s story.</p><p>(there is no image to go with these stories)</p>
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