Only a Dream: The Evening You Didn’t Know Would Change Everything

Chesterton Radio · Jul 21, 2026 · 28m

🎧 Listen to Mary Chapin Carpenter’s “Only a Dream” before joining us:

There are evenings that seem utterly ordinary.

Dinner is over. The house is quiet. Tomorrow’s plans are already made. Nothing remarkable appears to be happening.

And yet, years later, we realize we were standing on the threshold of an entirely new chapter.

In this special Under the Hood episode from The Little Station on Commercial Street in Atchison, Kansas—Chesterton Radio, we use Mary Chapin Carpenter’s hauntingly beautiful “Only a Dream” as a doorway into a larger conversation about family, memory, gratitude, and the…