Yesterday was my birthday, and it was pretty great. Our living room furniture finally arrived, so after more than a month of not watching a single thing on our brand-new…

I love good names. Perhaps this is because my last name is Dicks. Perhaps it’s because I had an uncle and great-uncle named Harry Dicks. Perhaps it’s because my father’s…

It’ll take you all of four minutes to watch this. It will be time very well spent.

Congratulations to Devan Sandiford, Speak Up storyteller who just won his first Moth StorySLAM last week. Devan is my 20th storytelling student to win a Moth StorySLAM or GrandSLAM. As…

On episode #85 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Elysha and I talk storytelling! In our follow up segment, we discuss some Homework for Life feedback from listeners and clients,…

The Oatmeal by Matthew Inman is one of the best online comics that you will ever read. His comic pertaining to Valentines Day is incredibly funny. Go and read the…

I found this on the art table. Charlie’s handwriting. I just moved on.

Botswana, home to 130,000 elephants, is auctioning off the rights to hunt and kill 70 of these animals. A ban on hunting elephants was lifted last May, and every year,…

This is one of the most interesting things I’ve heard recently: Nervousness is a normal, natural, healthy response to situations that are new, frightening, difficult, exciting, and potentially dangerous. Anxiety…

In case you’re a new reader (or perhaps forgotten): Almost a decade ago, I proposed a new job idea: Professional best man It remains a role that I am waiting…