30 lessons learned from six years of parenting
My daughter celebrated her sixth birthday on Sunday. When she turned two years-old, I posted a list of lessons learned from two years of parenting. I updated that list when…
Storytelling on The Gist
If you’re not already listening to Slate’s The Gist, the daily podcast hosted by Mike Pesca, here’s another reason to do so: I’ll be appearing on The Gist as a…
Slate might actually be stealing my ideas. Not really, but you have to admit that it’s getting a little suspicious.
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…
Love my readers
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.
The mindset of the person who affixes those stick figure family decals to the rear window of their car mystifies me.
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…
My aunts and uncles were once young and strong and infinite. This is how I try to remember them even when the shadows of my ongoing existential crisis creep in.
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…
This is how I survive meetings.
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…
My friends are incredibly odd. Complete outliers. I couldn’t be more happy.
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…
How I teach storytelling
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 think my wife married me to compensate for her lack of a sense of direction.
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…
