Closed captioning all the time
I see the words people say. When someone speaks - and especially when I am speaking - I see the words being spoken like closed captioning. For a long time,…
I hit another birdie.
Birds play an oversized role in golf. A birdie occurs when a golfer finishes a hole one stroke under par. It's a difficult feat but not exactly rare. I've scored…
Clara and Charlie’s Commandments
As Louisiana begins violating our separation of church and state and displaying a set of arcane religious laws in its public classrooms—a list containing a handful of meaningless rules ignored…
Itching for a fight
I was dropped off by an Uber driver in Scottsdale, Arizona, well after midnight, in a dark, sketchy place about a mile from my hotel. The driver pointed at a…
Charlie and his pal
The boy loves the cat. The cat loves the boy. I'm not sure who loves who more, which is probably precisely how every relationship should be. Either way, it is…
I want less Chipotle
Customers have recently been accusing Chipotle of skimping on food portions and have started a trend of filming Chipotle employees as they built out their burrito orders in an effort…
Working with the Federal Bureau of Investigation
For the past year, I've had the honor of working with the FBI's hostage negotiation unit, teaching them to tell better stories and deploy some of my communication strategies in…
A singular moment of perfection
Father's Day. Charlie and I are playing golf. He's played maybe a dozen times and is starting to get serious about the game. He's hitting the ball consistently, asking good…
“Tommy” and more
Elysha, Charlie, a friend, and I went to see "Tommy" - the Tony Award-winning musical based on The WHo's 1969 album of the same name - on Broadway on Saturday.…
My odd, unexpected history with proms
A couple of weeks ago, I performed onstage in New York for The Story Collider, an organization that seeks to help scientists share stories about their work, at its annual…
