Archive for September 2013
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…
Read MoreSpeak 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…
Read MoreExtremely 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…
Read MoreSpeak 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…
Read MoreUnfair 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…
Read MoreSpeak 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…
Read MoreSpeak 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…
Read MoreLast 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…
Read MoreSpeak 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…
Read MoreSiri 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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