Episodes

Judy and Donny revisit Perkett Elementary, a North Dakota school that operated by its own logic — where recess was never cancelled, even in subzero wind chills, and frozen dodgeball turned the courtyard into a survival arena....

Judy and Donny revisit the family’s most unforgettable sports chapter — the era when football dreams were built on hope, hypnosis, and a whole lot of wishful thinking. Donny’s football career began with big ambition and even ...

In Part Two of The School of Strange, North Dakota school life takes an even stranger turn. Field trips to the mental institution and the funeral home, PE teachers driving frozen buses to roller rinks, ski hills, and bowling ...

Left alone while our parents were in Winnipeg, we turned loaded guns into a pretend war game—until a real bullet blasted through the picture window. What followed was a secret we kept all winter, only uncovered when the sprin...

Donny’s dream car, the Gran Torino, turns into a highway nightmare when it breaks down on a road trip with his high school buddies, leaving them stranded with a stranger whose offer to “hang out” feels helpful at first but, i...