I had just settled into my seat, preparing for the second leg of my flight from Hartford to Victoria, British Columbia, when the pilot emerged from the cockpit and introduced…

While flying to British Columbia a couple of weeks ago, I heard this message over the intercom while sitting in the airport: "Would the passenger who left their goldfish at…

Big weekend for our family. A weekend of firsts and more. On Friday night, Charlie left for his first weekend of camping with the Boy Scouts. It was a big…

Exciting, thrilling, over-the-moon announcement: On July 30 and 31, I'll be performing (and recording) a solo show at Theaterworks, a beautiful theater in downtown Hartford. The title of the show…

On Friday, I found myself walking down the hallway of my school, minutes away from picking up my students at Spanish class, when I heard over the intercom: "Hello? Hello?"…

My school has a brand new playground. It's lovely. The students are enjoying it quite a bit. A couple of kids expressed concern over an apparatus that seemed a little…

One of my goals for the last five years has been to write at least 100 letters each year. Old-fashioned, snail mail letters,  written or printed on paper or cardstock…

Just a few days before our first Speak Up Storytelling show of 2023! SATURDAY, APRIL 22, 2023 at 7:00 PM at the Connecticut Historical Society Museum and Library Great stories!…

A team of MIT scientists - yes, a team - conducted an experiment using more than 1,000 Oreos and a rheometer to test if there is a way to reliably…

I was sitting at a table in Reagan International Airport, pecking away on my computer, waiting for my next flight, when a man began screaming somewhere down the terminal. It…