Years ago, Elysha Dicks and I were attending a Moth StorySLAM in Boston. The host of the show reached her hand into the bag filled with potential storyteller names, pulled…

Perhaps you heard about Dave Ayers, the 42-year-old Zamboni driver who came in as the emergency backup goaltender last week for the Carolina Hurricanes and and stopped 8 of 10…

Elysha’s grandmother, Edith Green, passed away last Sunday. She was 97 years-old. On Thursday, we honored her memory at a memorial service in New York City. Family from around the…

PERSONAL FITNESS 1. Don’t die. I was in Manhattan last night, producing and hosting a show for the Yale Alumni Association, and I was nearly hit by a kid on…

Charlie - age 7 - was arguing that two is a large number. “No, it’s not,” his big sister Clara shot back. I was going to counter with several examples.…

Allow me to brag a little bit about my little sister, Kelli. For well over a decade, Kelli has been writing professionally. Like me, she has done other things while…

On episode #87 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, I analyzes his own story "Holding On By a Thread" in an episode we call Storytelling Forensics. This episode is dedicated…

Last weekend Elysha and I saw Jagged Little Pill on Broadway, which I liked but did not love. A couple of terribly failed scenes, a wholly unnecessary plot line, and…

I despise legacy admission practices at colleges and universities. Frankly, I despise any practice in which a person is gifted the privilege of education, employment, or wealth simply because of…

I spend much of Saturday walking around without a coat,. It was sunny with temperatures in the mid 40’s and a light breeze, but I had exercised earlier and was…