Archive for December 2017
Awful human being alert
It’s hard to believe that someone could be as lacking in self awareness as the woman who wrote this letter to advice columnist Dear Prudence. How could anyone read this letter and not think they are coming across as an classist, elitist, repulsive snob? Dear Prudence, Recently my friend Amy made a new friend, Mary.…
Read MoreAll I want for Christmas is a machine gun
Not really, of course, but damn do I love this sweater. For those of you who can’t quite pick up on the reference, it’s Die Hard, the greatest Christmas film of all time. In the movie, our hero, John McClane, has just managed to kill his first terrorist and acquired a machine gun. He sends…
Read MoreWhen cowards hide behind digital walls and hurl grenades…
Someone did something rotten to me a few weeks ago. A person who I have never met but who performs in the same New York storytelling community as me, who knows many of the same storytellers that I do, and who was connected to me via Facebook, decided to block me. I didn’t notice. Though…
Read MoreSome mistakes are worse than others
We received this piece of mail to our home yesterday. The street address is almost correct. The town, province, and country are not.
Read MoreI talked to a stranger every day for a month. Here is what happened.
One of my yearly goals was to select three behaviors that I am opposed to and adopt them for one week, then write about my experiences. Back in May, I prayed twice a day, every day, for a month, to see what might happen. In October, I took a cold shower for a month. I’m…
Read MoreHow I delivered an inspirational talk at a human trafficking conference (while knowing nothing about human trafficking)
I was speaking to some of my former storytelling students – children of Holocaust survivors who had gone through a workshop series with me that culminated in a storytelling performance. One of them told me, “Now I see stories everywhere. Everything is a story.” While I don’t agree that everything is a story, I knew…
Read MoreMy students are threatening the sanctity of our future
I was sitting in the waiting room of the doctor’s office yesterday, reading, when the gentleman beside me began watching something on YouTube without headphones. I assumed that it was a mistake. His browser has opened accidentally. He would quickly close the app and maybe even apologize. But no, he just thought it perfectly fine…
Read MoreA sign. A tee-shirt. A business opportunity. A business partner.
Local television anchor Dennis House tweeted a photo of this sign from this hockey rink where his son was practicing . This big, beautiful, wonderful, fantastic, brilliant sign. My first thought: Put this sign on a shirt! My next thought: Ask kids what they really want to say to adults. Stuff like this. Put that…
Read MoreComeuppance!
Two years ago Kim Davis, the county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, denied David Ermold a marriage license because he was gay, despite it being legalized. Last week she had to watch as he signed up to run against her in the next election. Alabama did the right thing last night. Let’s hope Rowan…
Read MoreI missed so much of ’90’s culture. Unfortunately?
I was listening to an interview with Bob Saget, who once starred in a show called Full House, which featured the Olson twins. Other than what I just stated, I know nothing about this show. I never watched the show, and I wasn’t even aware of its existence until well after it had ended its…
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