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…
All 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…
When 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…
Some 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.
I 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…
How 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…
My 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…
A 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:…
Comeuppance!
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…
I 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…
