Our next Speak Up storytelling show takes place on Saturday, May 9, at the Museum for Culture and History in Hartford. Showtime is 7:00 PM. The theme of the show…

The philtrum is the space on your face between your nose and your mouth. It’s that vertical groove that drops from the nose to the lips. It’s the place where…

Regardless of your religious belief, the look on the face and the reaction of the interviewer as Stephen Fry answers his question: "What would you say to God if you…

I’m a timely person. I’m timely because I think it’s rude to be late. Even worse, I think it’s despicable for a person to be consistently late. The consistently late…

I manage email exceptionally well. My inbox is always close to empty (and often empty), yet I do not spend my life enslaved to my inbox. I've also been told…

Titles are so hard. Of the ten books I have published, I've only titled four myself. Others have been titled by friends, my agent, and my editor. When I see…

Ten years ago, I published a piece on the Huffington Post about parenting. I have no recollection of this. I'm sure I used the money I was paid for the…

I first heard about gentle parenting a couple of months ago. A colleague mentioned the phrase, and when I asked what it was, she said, "Oh, you're going to really…

Six things that we all agree should exist and are within our power to bring into existence, but still don't. A three-day vacation after a vacation The four-day work week…

A day will come, likely not too far in the future, when Americans will realize that sports betting via an app on their phones is an unmitigated disaster — a…