Kat Koppett changed my life.
On Monday night I won The Moth's virtual GrandSLAM championship. My seventh championship so far. My first virtual championship. Credit Kat Koppett, who doesn't even realize how she has changed…
Lessons from an afternoon at The Hill-Stead
Elysha and I are looking forward to hosting our first live storytelling show since February 2020 at The Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT on August 18, 2021. The show will…
The Black Spot
I'm reading Treasure Island to my students. One of my favorite books of all time. If you're familiar with the book, you know about the importance of The Black Spot.…
Cascatelli: A brand new pasta shape and a moment of creation
Back in March, I listened to a Planet Money podcast about The Sporkful's Dan Pashman's journey to create a brand new pasta shape. Being someone who celebrates, reveres, and adores…
Turns out I am telepathic.
Stephen King refers to books as telepathy. An author thinks something, writes it down, and then months or years later, that sentence appears in the mind of the reader. Sometimes…
A night of poetry ended in the kitchen of a dentist
Elysha and I are looking forward to hosting our first live storytelling show since February 2020 at The Hill-Stead Museum in Farmington, CT on August 18, 2021. The show will…
Join me at the upcoming virtual Moth GrandSLAM!
I'll be competing in a virtual Moth GrandSLAM championship on Monday, May 24 at 7:30 PM EST. Tickets are just $15. The storytelling should be great. I'd LOVE to see…
I kicked that ice cream machine’s ass. But no more.
About 13,000 McDonald’s across the country are now using the Taylor C602 digital ice cream machine for making their shakes and sundaes. Unlike the machines of yore, these machines are…
The Little Utz Girl is not what she seems to be (to me)
Please note The Little Utz Girl in the photograph below. Little Utz Girl is the actual name of the character on the bag of my student's potato chips. Customers in…
Where were you when?
I was born after Kennedy's assassination, so I'm not in the company of people who remember where they were when the announcement of his death was made. That said, people…
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