68 garments?
The average American buys about 68 garments every year. 68 GARMENTS PER YEAR. I don’t wear 68 different garments in any given year. Statistics like this are useful reminders that the…
Truth
In the spirit of Twenty-one Truths About Love and list-making, here are three things I think are true: Smart people know how little they actually know. Dumb people think they…
I don’t like Anchorman. Nor should you.
Sometimes the world likes something - even loves something - but you don’t. Like avocados. I can’t begin to imagine why so many people find these small, shriveled balls of…
Books rock
I’ve been out every night this week, speaking about my latest novel, “Twenty-one Truths About Love” to audiences of readers. At each event, a pile of books awaits me, and…
Speak Up Storytelling #73: Storytelling Forensics (“Wet and Naked”)
On episode #73 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, I analyze my own story "Naked and Wet" in an episode Elysha Dicks and I call Storytelling Forensics. LINKS Purchase Storyworthy:…
Storytelling Forensics: “Naked and Wet”
On episode #73 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Matthew Dicks analyzes his own story, "Naked and Wet," in an episode we call Storytelling Forensics. STORYTELLING SHOWS 2019-2020 November 23: Twenty-one…
Makemake
Clara, age 10, is spending the first hour of her morning - beginning around 6:00 AM - researching the celestial bodies that were named after Hawaiian Gods after finding a…
Dolly Parton is very wrong.
I’m listening to Dolly Parton’s America, a podcast by Jad Abumrad, the creator of Radiolab. Jad’s father, a physician, became friends with Dolly Parton after treating her, and this afforded…
My postage stamp mia culpa
Yesterday I shared a series of text messages between my wife and me that did not go well. While standing in the post office, I watched a woman spend five…
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