Donald Trump lost last night, and I won.
On July 11 of 2017, I was walking with half a dozen teenage girls across the quad at Miss Porter's School toward the dining hall. They were my camp counselors…
The worst
Nuclear weaponsUnannounced pickles placed on plates without warning or permissionThe Trump PresidencyDress codesIdentity theftThe second and third Matrix filmsDance school teachers who perform in their students' recitalsThe end of summer vacationIncarceration…
Speak Up Storytelling #15: Roquita Johnson
Episode #15 of Speak Up Storytelling is now available for your listening pleasure.Elysha Dicks and I talk about finding excellent stories in your everyday life using my strategy "Homework for Life,"…
Would you be more likely, less likely, or just as likely to marry your spouse today?
Interesting question posited by a friend recently:Would you be more likely, less likely, or just as likely to marry your spouse if you met him or her for the first…
N-word bingo
It's not hard to avoid using racial epitaphs. Words that offend enormous swaths of humanity for justifiable reasons.Despite this, people still do.Sometimes it's because they are racist, and they use…
If you could recover a single object from your past, what would it be?
When I was 16 years-old, I went to Pasadena, California with my high school's marching band to perform in the Rose Bowl Parade. At the time, I had just begun…
Little things made big
It's been a big summer for my son, Charlie. Lots of new learning and remarkable accomplishments. In addition to reading books for the first time and making enormous progress with…
The exact opposite of a bridezilla
As a wedding DJ for more than 20 years, I've encountered my fair share of bridezillas.Some of them have been absolute monsters. It's always such a shame. On a day that…
Making the ordinary a little more extraordinary should always be celebrated
The knife sharpener at the farmer's market that we visit almost every Sunday morning gave Elysha their card a few weeks ago. Rather than a collection of information on a…
$126 is not a lot of money
Have you heard?Kevin Spacey’s latest film Billionaire Boys Club was exiled to video-on-demand in the wake of the sexual abuse allegations against the actor, and its theatrical release last weekend was…
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