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.…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
"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…
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…
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…
I've begun choosing goals for 2018. It's a process that takes about a month because the decisions I make now will, in part, shape the coming year for me. If…