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Speak Up storyteller: Barbara Klau

On Saturday, Elysha and I will be producing our next Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the evening is Schooled: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned. Doors open at 7:00. Stories begin at 7:30. The event is free, and no ticket is required. Eight storytellers will take the…

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Speak Up storyteller: Trish Milnamow

On Saturday, Elysha and I will be producing our next Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the evening is Schooled: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned. Doors open at 7:00. Stories begin at 7:30. The event is free, and no ticket is required. Eight storytellers will take the…

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Extremely susceptible to advertising

My daughter is four year-old and has watched almost no commercial television in her life. Other than the occasional sporting event or a snippet of news in the morning, we never watch television in the presence of our children, and our children only watch PBS or similar, commercial free, educational programming. Occasionally, though, one of…

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Speak Up storyteller: LB Muñoz

On Saturday, Elysha and I will be producing our next Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the evening is Schooled: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned. Doors open at 7:00. Stories begin at 7:30. The event is free, and no ticket is required. Eight storytellers will take the…

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Unfair assumption #15: Married couples who keep their finances separate are more likely to have seriously flawed, less fulfilling relationships.

Married couples who keep their finances separate are more likely to have seriously flawed, less fulfilling relationships. Also, as a compendium to the first unfair assumption comes this bonus unfair assumption: As agreeable as a couple claims to be about their financial division, there is almost always one person in the relationship who is not…

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Speak Up storyteller: Charly Weiss

On Saturday, Elysha and I will be producing our next Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the evening is Schooled: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned. Doors open at 7:00. Stories begin at 7:30. The event is free, and no ticket is required. Eight storytellers will take the…

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Speak Up storyteller: Bill Wynne

On Saturday, Elysha and I will be producing our next Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the evening is Schooled: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned. Doors open at 7:00. Stories begin at 7:30. The event is free, and no ticket is required. Eight storytellers will take the…

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Last day of summer 2013

It’s officially autumn. While I can still walk out the door in a tee shirt and shorts during the day, the mornings and evenings are now jacket and jeans weather. More than one tree in the neighborhood has begun to change color. The NFL is in high gear. The newness of the school year has…

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Speak Up storyteller: Julie Threlkeld

On Saturday, Elysha and I will be producing our next Speak Up storytelling event at Real Art Ways in Hartford, CT. The theme of the evening is Schooled: Lessons Taught and Lessons Learned. Doors open at 7:00. Stories begin at 7:30. The event is free, and no ticket is required. Eight storytellers will take the…

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Siri on the NFL and MLB

I was on my way home from a sports bar after watching the New England Patriots beat the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. My wife was in the kitchen, making dinner, and wanted to know who had won the game. She turned to her iPhone and asked Siri for the score. I loved Siri’s responses:   I…

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