We have a new rule in my classroom, proposed by a student, that my students and I fully support: No more beverage talk. Beverage talk is boring. If you’re telling us about your English breakfast…

As a person who receives a lot of feedback from folks online – and not always kind, generous, or even coherent – I often have to decide how to respond. Listen closely, because this took…

As a Boy Scout, I spent hundreds of nights camping outdoors, in tents, lean-tos, and under the stars. As a result, I have also spent hundreds – if not thousands – of days and nights…

Back on March 23, 2020, I posted the music video for Bruce Springsteen’s “Waitin’ on a Sunny Day” in my class’s Google Classroom. During our first online meeting, I told my students that this pandemic…

My new book, Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life, contains a chapter entitled, “Be a Criminal.” The lessons of the chapter is this: Sometimes we need to bend or…

A Rhode Island man recently achieved a goal he spent nearly two decades working toward  — earning his Ph.D. and becoming a physicist. At Brown University, no less. A prestigious Ivy League university. That accomplishment…

“Someday Is Today: 22 Simple, Actionable Ways to Propel Your Creative Life” publishes today! My book’s birthday! It’s a book written to help anyone who wants to accomplish almost anything in this world. In you…

I despise pickles. They are a despicable, hideous creation. They are also one of the only foods that are capable of contaminating their environment and ruining a perfectly good meal. Open a jar of pickles…

I was interviewed by a reporter from Newington Life about my upcoming book “Someday Is Today.” Available wherever you get books on Tuesday, June 7. After the interview, Charlie popped into the room to say…

In December of 1967, Lyndon Johnson made an unscheduled, unannounced visit to the Vatican. The visit was so unannounced that even the Pope Paul VI – recovering from a recent, undisclosed surgery – didn’t know…