My students are threatening the sanctity of our future
I was sitting in the waiting room of the doctor's office yesterday, reading, when the gentleman beside me began watching something on YouTube without headphones. I assumed that it was a…
A sign. A tee-shirt. A business opportunity. A business partner.
Local television anchor Dennis House tweeted a photo of this sign from this hockey rink where his son was practicing . This big, beautiful, wonderful, fantastic, brilliant sign. My first thought:…
Comeuppance!
Two years ago Kim Davis, the county clerk for Rowan County, Kentucky, denied David Ermold a marriage license because he was gay, despite it being legalized. Last week she had…
I missed so much of ’90’s culture. Unfortunately?
I was listening to an interview with Bob Saget, who once starred in a show called Full House, which featured the Olson twins. Other than what I just stated, I know…
Please don’t let the Trump administration change your perception of history
When a Trump supporter (or this week Press Secretary Sarah Sanders) claims that President Obama deserves no credit for the current state of the United States economy, please have these…
If you enjoy a glass floor, don’t forget to look down and thank your lucky stars
"But for a couple of bad breaks, especially visited upon vulnerable people, the outcome of life would be so different." This is a sentence that Slate's Mike Pesca spoke a couple…
Things I do #12: I worry about people mentioned in songs who are frozen in time.
I first heard Jonathan Coulton's song "Code Monkey" about ten years ago. It's a song about a lovelorn computer programmer who is pining over an office receptionist. After offering a soda…
Things that make me cry
Speaking to a producer at a show in Boston last night, she asked me why I'm willing to share so much about my life on stage and in writing. There are…
Setting goals for 2018
I've begun the process of choosing goals for 2018. It's a process that takes about a month because the decisions that I make now will in part shape the coming…
You can’t be “useless after 8:00 PM” if you want to be productive
I was speaking to someone this week about being more productive, and over the course of accounting for his time, he informed me that he is "useless after 8:00 PM."In…
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