The Story Economy Blog

I’m kind of obsessed with Instagram. This is hardly shocking. But I’m not going there to do the things we love to do on social media (i.e. compare ourselves to others, or vent and get pulled into vicious back-and-forths on hot button issues). Nope.…

I just came off working the corporate show I write every summer. It’s a project that takes all of my resources for the month of July, including being onsite for the week of the event. Though it means long days where emotions sometimes run high, it’s…

The other day, there was a fight in my house over the last bag of BBQ chips. My husband buys these boxes of snacks at Costco. (Does anyone else know a grown man so completely obsessed with Costco? I need to write a piece about my husband’s love for…

I should really stop writing about death. I was going to. I specifically told an editor, “I’m tired of writing about death. I’m going to write about happy things next time.” And then I wrote about death. In fact, I wrote the essay, “Love…

My father-in-law passed away last week. It was expected, but still came a bit sooner than we were ready for. We had just brought in hospice the day before and we were working to get him settled and comfortable. Tuesday just before midnight, my husband,…