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…

On Thursday, I spoke about writing at a TEDx Talk in Natick, Massachusetts. Later, during the reception, I was approached by a woman who told me that years ago, she…