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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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"…

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…

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,…

A friend informed me of a possible job opportunity yesterday. Don’t tell Elysha. “What would that be?” he asked. “Job #10?” I didn’t take the job, of course. A technicality…

About 18 years ago, my DJ partner, Bengi, and I were driving home after entertaining at a wedding on the Connecticut shore. We had played the song “Sweet Home Alabama”…