The Story Economy Blog

Walking down the steps of a tiny Tribeca restaurant earlier this year, about to meet Seth Godin for the first time, I wanted to die. Sweaty palms, dry mouth: the whole deal. I’d been reading his stuff for a few years, and I had an idea of who he…

When my husband and I got married five years ago, we weren’t big on tradition. Instead of a church, we got married in a gorgeous old Art Deco building that used to be train station. We had a good friend get ordained online at Universal Life Church…

My husband grew up moving around constantly. His dad helped build plants for Procter & Gamble all over the South, so from the time he was six until the time he was 16, his family moved every year. That meant a new school every year, a new baseball…

I was an English major nerd, so writing papers was, you know, fun. It was fun because I got to make stuff up. There was always this moment after I had read the book or poem or essay, when it was time to let the little piece of inspiration drop into…

I’m having an inappropriate email relationship with someone. It started out innocently enough. But now, there’s coyness and innuendo. One of us is playing hard to get, and the other one has much, much higher expectations. I know that it won’t end…