Four years ago, I did a TEDx Talk in Natick, Massachusetts entitled “Live Life Like You Are 100 Years Old.” You can watch it here: The premise of the talk…

Last night we celebrated Clara’s last meal as a ten year-old girl. She turns eleven today. During dinner, Clara asked about the day she was born, so Elysha and I…

After the Saturday snowstorm, Clara, Charlie, and I went outside to build snowmen, and I must say, if you have the chance to build a snowman at some point in…

On episode #82 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…

Last Saturday, Elysha and I produced our first show at the Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, CT. It featured a fantastic night of stories and a raucous, sold-out audience. We had…

A week ago, a friend was dealing with an impossible situation involving a truly rotten person and asked me for some advice in terms of how to respond to her…

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…