“All gender” restroom signs are the best
Another Moth StorySLAM at The Oberon in Cambridge, MA meant another night using an all-gender restroom. This time I brought friends who found themselves in the presence of the opposite…
Democratic Republic of the Congo, of course!
My daughter, Clara, is a bit of a geography nut. At the tender age of eight, I would venture to suggest that she knows more about world geography than most…
Heroes have a way of making you realize how small-minded and ungrateful you have been.
Meet former US Special Forces soldier turned humanitarian aid worker David Eubank, running through ISIS gunfire in the embattled Iraqi city of Mosul in order to rescue a toddler who…
Shameful Betsy DeVos can’t say what most human beings can say with ease
Here is the Secretary of Education for the United States of America, the caretaker of our public schools, the protector of our children's future, and also a person who has…
Suck less
I love this sign. We live in a world where the President of the United States opened his very first Cabinet meeting by having each Cabinet member praise him as…
Not all sources of inspiration are equal
I've often said that you should use whatever you can find as a source of inspiration, but this might be a little much even for me.
Sleeps like her daddy
My daughter Clara, age 8, is very much like her Daddy. Up before the crack of dawn almost every day. Recently, I was telling my students about all the books…
If you are reading this, it is very likely that you don’t deserve the fourth cookie
"You owe a debt to the unlucky." Michael Lewis's 2012 commencement address is a truly outstanding speech. So often I am told that a speech is great when it is…
The things I get done while sleepwalking
I've reached a new (and perhaps frightening) level of productivity. Last night I went sleepwalking. It's something I did quite a bit as a kid and still do on occasion…
Wherever you stand on the political spectrum, you have to admire and hopefully agree with everything that James Comey says here during last week’s hearings.
Some people may not believe everything he said during the hearings (and yet simultaneously and inexplicably claim his words serve as vindication), but these words come from a patriot who…
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