Compliments?
I hear from readers and listeners and audience members every day. Most are kind and thoughtful, even when they are also challenging or ornery or disagreeable. Some of the things…
Deep Impact is a stupid movie
I know it was released in 1998, but boy is Deep Impact a stupid film. It you don’t remember, Deep Impact and Armageddon both came out in 1998 - two…
Definition of guilt
I saw a definition of guilt online that I really did not like (and I wish I had saved it), so I wrote my own:Guilt is the space between self-blame…
Washington Post!
Thrilled to see that my next novel, "Twenty-one Truths About Love," was listed in the Washington Post's list of "The 18 books to read this fall!" A book comprised entirely…
Hemingway’s Robert Jordan and his last words
I’m not going to die, of course, but in a hypothetical world where death would come for even me, I think that some of the last words of Hemingway’s Robert…
James Corden was brilliant for a reason everyone failed to see
James Corden’s segment taking on Bill Maher and the fat shaming comments he made on his HBO show Real Time have garnered enormous attention in recent days, and justifiably so.…
Storyworthy book launch (Part 2) [rebroadcast]
Matthew And Elysha step away for the mics for a week to offer you a rebroadcast of episodes 6 and 7 of the podcast, which feature the 2018 book launch…
Storyworthy book launch (Part 1) [rebroadcast]
Matthew And Elysha step away for the mics for a week to offer you a rebroadcast of episodes 6 and 7 of the podcast, which feature the 2018 book launch…
Bacon!
After 21 years of teaching, I have finally encountered the greatest mid-morning snack that a student has ever brought to school:A bag of bacon. That’s it. Just a big old…
Trump has achieved a new low.
I realize that pointing out the stupidity or amorality or narcissism of Donald Trump is like reminding people that the sun rises and sets every day, but occasionally he says…
