A celebration of so much more than just a book
On Saturday night, I took the stage at the release party for Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life Through the Power of Storytelling, and told five brand new…
Don’t be selfish. Tell a story.
I tell people to tell stories a lot. I know. It's my clarion call. But allow me to say it again. Last Wednesday night, I performed in The Moth GrandSLAM at the…
Run to The Moth. Allow stories to lighten your load.
Here is my suggestion:Run to The Moth. On the radio, the podcast, or a live show. As you probably know, The Moth changed my life. It gave me a stage to…
Moth StorySLAM: Clara Wants a Sister
This summer I took about 30 young ladies from Miss Porter's School to a Moth StorySLAM in Somerville, MA as part of a weeklong program on writing and storytelling. It was…
Dan Kennedy is right. Reach out to people whose work means the world to you.
Dan Kennedy, writer, storyteller, and Moth host, tweeted earlier this week: (@DanKennedy_NYC) Gonna get better at sending notes to people whose work means the world to me. Feels fanboy, but beats waiting…
Teaching is full of unexpected surprises
One billion years ago, I taught a third grader named Kaity to multiply. Last night, as Elysha and I were leaving for a Moth StorySLAM in Somerville, I asked Kaity, now…
Seven and counting…
One of our Speak Up storytelling shows earlier in the year featured four former storytelling workshop students who have gone on to tell stories at Moth StorySLAMs in New York,…
The Moth: The Robbery
In March of last year, I told this story at the Brooklyn Academy of Music about an armed robbery that I experienced in 1993. It was the hardest story I've…
My three greatest acts of storytelling cruelty
I like to think that I have been a supportive and positive force on the thousands of storytellers who I have performed alongside over the years, but I've also had…
One person is listening. Perhaps more, but at least one. I’m so pleased.
I was asked by many people on Monday morning about the AFC championship game that I attended on Sunday night. One of the most frequently asked questions was:"What time did you…
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