I recently went back to work (does one day a week count as going back? I say YES!) and, with a thirty-minute-minimum commute each way, wondered how to make the most of my hour spent in the car. I wanted to use the time effectively–productively, even–because, as a parent of young kids, I look at blocks of alone time much like Gollum looks at the ring.

After completing and singing the praises of Serial, I searched for another podcast that could fill my commute and leave me more informed than when I ambivalently climbed into the car that morning, tears both blurring and sharpening the vision of my three-year-old watching through the window as my car backed away. I scanned the Top Charts section, because I’m nothing if not a follower, and downloaded a few episodes of some titles that caught my eye. Then I settled in for some traffic and learning.

And some law and grace.

Read the rest over at Mockingbird!