The Story Economy Blog

About seven years ago, I wrote some web site copy for a really cool little gourmet wholesale coffee roaster. The guys who owned it had a great story. But I can’t quite remember it. Because mostly what I remember is that I wasn’t allowed to use…

A few weeks ago, my daughter, Georgia, started crying from the basement playroom. My husband went down there, and found her pointing up at the windowsill, where a copper folk-art style cat was sitting. It had been sitting there since the day she was born…

Does anyone else have a problem letting it be? That there is a pretty rockin’ song about letting it be tells me I’m probably not the only one eager to hear those words of wisdom from Mother Mary. Oh, by the way, I’m sorry I was away for so long.…

Charlie Brown tells us happiness is a warm blanket. So what's independence? I have some ideas. Independence is a thing to celebrate. Independence is full of risks. Independence is not giving a shit what anyone else thinks. Independence is…

I have two things to tell you about editing, and the first one I learned from my rose bushes. They are rambling fairy roses and although I love my garden something crazy, I don’t love these roses (we inherited them with the house—of which this is not…