When a Trump supporter (or this week Press Secretary Sarah Sanders) claims that President Obama deserves no credit for the current state of the United States economy, please have these…
"But for a couple of bad breaks, especially visited upon vulnerable people, the outcome of life would be so different." This is a sentence that Slate's Mike Pesca spoke a couple…
I first heard Jonathan Coulton's song "Code Monkey" about ten years ago. It's a song about a lovelorn computer programmer who is pining over an office receptionist. After offering a soda…
Speaking to a producer at a show in Boston last night, she asked me why I'm willing to share so much about my life on stage and in writing. There are…
I've begun the process of choosing goals for 2018. It's a process that takes about a month because the decisions that I make now will in part shape the coming…
I was speaking to someone this week about being more productive, and over the course of accounting for his time, he informed me that he is "useless after 8:00 PM."In…
Politics is the only arena where a gutless coward like Mitch McConnell can say, "I'm going to let the people of Alabama decide” about whether he should work alongside a…
Elysha attended Smith College in North Hampton, MA from 1993-1997.I attended St. Joseph's University in West Hartford, CT from 1996-1999. Both of these institutions of higher learning are women's colleges,…
I never speak about myself in terms of getting old. It's a common refrain. A colleague's knee is sore. His back hurts. A friend can't instantly recall a name or a…
It's true. If you're a person who argues in favor of the banning of any book, I have unfairly assumed that you are a stupid person. You're a loathsome, contemptible, ignorant…
