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I have a story on The Moth Radio Hour and podcast this week!
I’m thrilled to have a story featured on The Moth Radio Hour and Moth podcast this week. It’s a holiday story about my car accident two days before Christmas when I was seventeen years old and the unexpected gift I received as a result.
Read MoreThe Moth: The Great Stargazing Betrayal
On December 29, 2014, I took the stage at The Moth StorySLAM at The Bitter End in Manhattan to tell a story. The theme of the night was Rewards. I told a story about an evening of stargazing with my students that went terrible wrong. I finished in first place. Here a recording of the…
Read MoreFour pieces of perfect truth on the nature of writing and work by Dan Kennedy
Dan Kennedy is an author, storyteller, screenwriter, and host of The Moth’s podcast and their live shows. I first met Dan in 2011 when I took the stage for the first time and told a story at The Moth. He was hosting that night. I took the stage, shook his hand, and told my story. I…
Read MoreThe Moth: Sex and Frozen Corn
The first gift that my daughter ever received was a stuffed ear of corn from our friend, Justine. It’s been sitting on the corner of her bookshelf for the last six years. She knows that it was the first gift she ever received – given to her before she was even born – but she’s…
Read MoreResolution update: March 2015
Each month I post the progress of my New Year’s resolutions here as a means of holding myself accountable. The following are the results through the month of February. PERSONAL HEALTH 1. Don’t die. Didn’t even come close to dying. 2. Lose 20 pounds. I remain just one pound down. At this pace, I will…
Read More19 things I heart right now
Better Call Saul (television show) Listening to my kindergarten daughter read to me Overcast (podcasting app) Chipotle burritos The Memory Palace (podcast) 1776 by David McCullough Tickling my children The Lyle Lovett Pandora station My wife in a tee shirt and underwear Cold water from a metallic water bottle Bruce Willis action films while on…
Read MoreMy daughter wished me luck before my most recent Moth GrandSLAM performance then promptly retracted it.
I received this incredibly sweet but slightly parroted message from my kids just before I took the stage in Brooklyn to compete in my tenth Moth GrandSLAM last week. When I saw my daughter the next day, she asked how I did. “Second place.” “Again?” she asked. In ten GrandSLAMs, I’ve only won once and…
Read MoreSleeping with goats on The Gist
I had the pleasure of appearing on The Gist this week. Host Mike Pesca interrogated me about my life story, and we talked about how you can take a life event and craft an interesting story from it. I talked about sleeping with goats, shotguns to my head, and being arrested and tried for a…
Read MoreSpeak Up is two years old! It began with a snow day and a simple question to my wife.
Speak Up, the storytelling organization that my wife and I founded in 2013, is approaching it’s two year anniversary. It was born on a snow day much like the one we experienced in the northeast earlier this week. My storytelling career began about five years ago with the discovery of The Moth’s podcast. A friend…
Read MoreStorytelling on The Gist
If you’re not already listening to Slate’s The Gist, the daily podcast hosted by Mike Pesca, here’s another reason to do so: I’ll be appearing on The Gist as a part of a new project that seeks to teach the art of storytelling to listeners. Whether you are telling stories at a dinner party or…
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