Speak Up Storytelling #4: Sam Carley [rebroadcast]
The combination of Hanukah and an injury (happily not too serious) to our son's foot has made it impossible to record a new episode for you this week, so please enjoy…
The combination of Hanukah and an injury (happily not too serious) to our son's foot has made it impossible to record a new episode for you this week, so please enjoy…
The Showtime series Kidding (which I have not watched) did something quite amazing:One continuous, panoramic, uncut shot that shows the compressed transformation of a character and a space over the course of…
I was at a Moth StorySLAM in Cambridge last week and I found myself in a gender-neutral restroom, which I have used many, many times. Men and women peeing in…
One of the great benefits of teaching is the conversations that you have with children.A child at recess today showed me her “secret hideout” for drawing pictures.“Only villains have secret…
Every year it’s the same annoying thing:Sometime before Halloween or perhaps just after, Christmas decorations begin to appear in the stores. Lights and baubles and candy canes are placed on…
I’m always heartened when I see church signs like this given the fact that about 80 percent of Evangelicals and more than half of Catholics still support the Trump Presidency.…
It’s rare when you actually get to witness the straw that breaks the camel’s back, but a few weeks ago, I witness just such a straw-and-back situation while sitting in…
On episode #27 of the Speak Up Storytelling podcast, Matthew and Elysha Dicks talk storytelling alongside storyteller Kathy Binder. In our followup segment, we talk about upcoming Speak Up events, respond…
Years ago, before the kids were born, Elysha and I went to the movies.We’ve gone to the movies since the kids were born, of course, despite warnings from those rotten…
PERSONAL HEALTH1. Don’t die.My left ear has been filled with fluid since a plane flight two weeks ago. My doc says it should clear in another week of so, and…