I talked to a stranger every day for a month. Here is what happened.
One of my yearly goals was to select three behaviors that I am opposed to and adopt them for one week, then write about my experiences. Back in May, I…
How I delivered an inspirational talk at a human trafficking conference (while knowing nothing about human trafficking)
I was speaking to some of my former storytelling students — children of Holocaust survivors who had gone through a workshop series with me that culminated in a storytelling performance.…
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 sign. A tee-shirt. A business opportunity. A business partner.
Local television anchor Dennis House tweeted a photo of this sign from the hockey rink where his son was practicing. This big, beautiful, brilliant sign. My first thought: Put this…
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 legal. 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…
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 Slate's Mike Pesca said 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…
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