About two weeks ago, I wrote a tongue-in-cheek post accusing Slate of stealing my ideas. On the same day, Slate published pieces defending skipping and arguing that climate change skeptics…
A reader from overseas sent me this collage my the covers of Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend, including two that I had never seen before.
I like to imagine the decision making process that goes on in someone’s mind when they make a choice that I think is fairly stupid. Take those stick figure decals…
I’ve been thinking about my grandparents a lot lately. Specifically, I’ve been thinking about the families that they raised and what life must’ve been like back then. In the not-so-old…
When I am forced to suffer through an agonizing meeting or a pedantic training session (of which almost all are), I stare at photographs like this to prevent my soul…
It occurs to me that all of my closest friends are exceptionally non-materialistic. Not a single designer anything in the bunch. Not one name brand plastered on anything that they…
I did an interview with Jim Levulis of WAMC public radio on storytelling, and specifically, the teaching of storytelling. If you’re interested, you can listen here.
I’ve always been able to navigate well without a map. Years ago, in a time before GPS, I brought Elysha – who was still my girlfriend – to Rhode Island…
My love of the New England Patriots doesn’t make a lot of sense. A collection of men who I have never met take the field to play a game that…
In the Washington Post, Katherine Reynolds Lewis writes about when it’s acceptable to let your child quit an activity and how do you handle the anger that children express when…
