Over the past two weeks, I've had to sincerely apologize to three different people: Two colleagues, after fouling something up A friend for whom I made a faulty assumption A…

Last week, I was telling my students about Johnny Cash — the musician who we were listening to that week — when I told them this story: Johnny Cash died…

Researchers recently studied the relationship between physical appearance and tipping in restaurants, and their findings were not surprising: Attractive servers — identified as such by the customers who interacted with…

It's hard to believe that, given the wrong set of circumstances — a neighborhood cat lurking on our deck — these two brothers can turn on each other and become…

A new survey found that 44 percent of adults in the United States use their smartphones to browse the internet within 10 minutes of waking up, either always or often. This doesn't…

Our first Speak Up storytelling show of 2026 is coming up, and tickets are now available. Saturday, January 31, 2026, at 7:00 PM EST Connecticut Historical Society  The theme of…

In 2024, an art collective embarked on a new piece called Our Cow Angus. Here's what they did: Bought a young cow. Named it Angus. Presold Angus as 1,200 hamburgers…

I was teaching a storytelling workshop last month when a woman approached me and asked if I remembered her. I did not and immediately felt bad. She told me not…

More than ten years ago, a 12-year-old boy in France faked his own kidnapping to avoid a dentist appointment, appearing in a town 100 miles from his own after claiming to have…

The state of Utah has made it easy for anyone to ban a book in public schools across the state. A law passed in 2024 allowed the statewide ban of…