A simple explanation of public opinion
If you replace the phrase “Americans think” with “Americans with landlines who answer unsolicited phone calls at dinnertime think” the world begins to make a lot more sense.
Seven and counting…
One of our Speak Up storytelling shows earlier in the year featured four former storytelling workshop students who have gone on to tell stories at Moth StorySLAMs in New York,…
Be happy for rule breakers
A rule I live by:If someone is breaking a rule, and the breaking of that rule hurts no one, always leave the rule breaker alone. Leave them be. Don't rat…
Baseball players are damn cowards
On Wednesday night, Toronto Blue Jays Jose Bautista flipped his bat at home plate before rounding the bases after hitting a home run. Flipped his bat. Tossed it into the air…
The Moth: The Robbery
In March of last year, I told this story at the Brooklyn Academy of Music about an armed robbery that I experienced in 1993. It was the hardest story I've…
I choose to remember my Aunt Diane in a way I never got to see her.
My Aunt Diane passed away yesterday. A sudden and unexpected loss. Diane—sister to my father—was one of seven children who once lived on a sprawling piece of land in Blackstone,…
I choose to remember by aunt Diane in a way I never got to see her.
My Aunt Diane passed away yesterday. A sudden and unexpected loss.Diane - sister to my father - was one of seven children who once lived on a sprawling piece of…
The Two-Day Rule: A means by which I have become more productive and trusted.
When I'm upset - angry or enraged or disappointed or annoyed - the rule I try to live by is this: Stop.It turns out that the words or actions that upset…
Verbal sparring: Don’t allow your opponent (Trump) prescribe beliefs to you
A bit of advice to all of the journalists and news anchors who are interviewing Donald Trump (or any other politician):When Trump says makes a wildly false assertion and then…
