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Read more about the article Feedback is always good, even when it’s bad.

Feedback is always good, even when it’s bad.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 21, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Last Saturday, Elysha and I produced our first show at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. It featured a fantastic night of stories and a raucous, sold-out audience. We had…

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Read more about the article Just a little mind terrorism

Just a little mind terrorism

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 20, 2020
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A week ago, a friend was dealing with an impossible situation involving a truly rotten person and asked me for some advice in terms of how to respond to her…

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Read more about the article Jesus would not like these Christians

Jesus would not like these Christians

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 19, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

Last week, the Washington Post reported on a Christian school in Kentucky that expelled fifteen year-old Kayla Kenney after she posed with rainbow birthday cake for her birthday. Apparently, this…

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Read more about the article Leave my Diet Coke alone

Leave my Diet Coke alone

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 18, 2020
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This is a real thing that has happened to me many times. I’m drinking from a bottle of Diet Coke. Standing beside me is someone drinking a coffee. A third…

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Read more about the article Your regional dialect does not make you special

Your regional dialect does not make you special

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 17, 2020
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As you may know, New Yorkers have an interesting way of stating that they are standing in a singular column of fellow human beings. Rather than saying that they are…

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Read more about the article Comedy mastermind

Comedy mastermind

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 16, 2020
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Charlie is a seven year-old boy, so he likes jokes involving poop, vomit, and butts. It’s kind of hilarious but also a little tiresome. Recently I forbade him from using…

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Read more about the article Speak Up Storytelling #81: Devan Sandiford

Speak Up Storytelling #81: Devan Sandiford

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 15, 2020
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On episode #81 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Matthew and Elysha Dicks talk storytelling! In our follow up segment, we share about upcoming events in the Speak Up realm…

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Read more about the article Damn, One Million Moms! You are so damn stupid!

Damn, One Million Moms! You are so damn stupid!

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 14, 2020
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Activist conservative group and rabid anti-LGBTQ bigots One Million Moms (which at best has about 170,000 members) is taking aim at Burger King for using what it calls the "d-word"…

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Read more about the article I managed a McDonald’s restaurant last night. I’m so annoyed about it.

I managed a McDonald’s restaurant last night. I’m so annoyed about it.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 13, 2020
  • Post category:Uncategorized

I started working for McDonald’s in Milford, Massachusetts in 1987 when I was 16 years-old. Within a year, I was promoted to manager while still in high school, studying my…

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Things I Do #15: I worry about the safety of Bruce Springsteen and Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:January 12, 2020
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I spend a significant portion of my life paralyzed by fear over the thought that Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Bruce Springsteen might someday die. Sometimes I awake in the morning,…

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