The Story Economy Blog

When I was 10, this picture of me appeared in the newspaper. A newspaper photographer came to the gymnastics meet I was in that Saturday and took a bunch of shots. The shot of me made it, and Monday at school, I was a minor celebrity for a day. The…

It’s funny how you get what you’re looking for in the middle of looking for something else altogether. It happens all of the time. It’s just rare that we pay attention. Let me explain. Yesterday, I had a meeting that involved a long car…

I’ve been waiting for weeks to share something with you: my new video! It’s live on my home page (tucked neatly into my header), and on YouTube. Making this video was very exciting and different for me. There was no way I was just going to do…

For the past few nights, my four-year-old has been freaking out at bedtime. “I’m thinking of that commercial again, mommy,” he’ll say. It was a creepy fright-night type commercial that ran during Jeopardy last week, advertising a Halloween event…

Yeah, I’m stealing from my pal, Thoreau, who went to the woods because he wished to live deliberately. But the dude was onto something with the idea of getting away from it all. That why I trekked out to Colorado a few weeks ago to spend a day with…