Are We Tweeting Away the Power of Story?

Confession: I love social media. I am addicted to Facebook and am coming around on the whole Twitter deal. Twitter irritates me a little as a teacher and writer though. Maybe I am just longwinded, but this 140 character rule is bothersome. I worry that Twitter might be impacting a culture of people who already […]

From the Archives: Thinking about Sustenance

Wednesday is usually an “off day” here at the blog, but I was going back through some writing last week, found this piece and thought I’d break tradition to share it with you. Ibelieve I wrote it around the time of the Wall Street scandals/government bail-outs, but it certainly works for where I am today… […]

Embracing Discomfort

My first experience with public speaking as an adult was in front of four-hundred people at an athletic banquet. I don’t remember what I said, but I am pretty sure it wasn’t that great and in my nervousness, I ended up calling a kid by the wrong name. Fortunately for him (not so much for […]