The thing I will miss most about being a teacher is the conversations I had with kids, often outside the curriculum, but oftentimes even more meaningful, important, and brilliant, This…

The ubiquity of cell phones has caused people to stop memorizing phone numbers. Scroll through a list of names or start typing their first name, and you can be calling…

My longest and best friend, Bengi, and I met behind the counter of a McDonald's restaurant in Milford, Massachusetts, in the spring of 1987. For a moment, he didn't like…

I've been to Victoria, British Columbia six times over the past decade — first to consult with a company, then to speak at a university, and then four years in…

Spotted at the McDonald's in Berlin, CT: Anyone want to guess what the bottom vertical word off of "Grandma" is supposed to mean? "Apple" is clearly one of them, but…

Back in February of 2022, I wrote about my former McDonald's boss, Jalloul Mantacer, and the profound impact he had on me. About a month later, a reader managed to…

In March, I wrote about Angus, a cow with a precarious future. In 2024, an art collective embarked on a new piece called Our Cow Angus. Here's what they did:…

For reasons that were never explained to me, there was a crib in my hotel room in Victoria. Unusual and a little unsettling. But the strangest part was this: Hanging…

I sleepwalk. I've been doing it all my life. Most of the time. I find myself doing simple things: Sitting on the couch with a remote in my hand Sitting…

I live in the town of Newington, Connecticut. Our town’s slogan, at least according to our seal, is Growth & Progress. This is a fine slogan, I guess. The two…