The Story Economy Blog

My son, Max, is almost 9. He’s a great kid, with swooping hair like his dad and a cheeky smile like me. He’s also a smart ass. I’m talking smart ass of the A+ plus sort, the won-the-award-for-class-comedian, has-a-comeback-for-everything,…

  A few weeks ago, I went to the American Society of Journalists and Authors (ASJA) conference in New York City. It was my eighth time going to the conference in 11 years. This year was especially awesome, because I scheduled time outside of the…

I’ve always been kind of an outlier. Not demographically or in a way that is apparent to others. After all, I’m a middle-aged, middle-income, brown-haired, blue-eyed white girl, who lives in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Ohio and follows a…

Last week, I got a new MacBook Pro. It’s the seventh or eighth Mac I’ve bought in the 20+ years I’ve been a computer user. My first new one was 1996, when I went off to graduate school. I don’t recall it being stressful, because all I had to do…

Transparency is a word that has come up in several of my conversations with clients in the past week. I’m also reading Dan Ariely’s book, The (Honest) Truth About Dishonesty, so questions of honesty and disclosure are really on the brain right…