The Story Economy Blog

For the second year in a row, I spent the last weekend in February at Serenbe, with two of my best writer girlfriends, Jodi and Kate. (That's a snapshot of my favorite place.) There may have been at least one incident of alcohol-induced silliness…

Today, let’s play multiple choice. Which do you think is easier to do? THIS . . . . . . OR THIS? The second one—doing the splits—is far easier for me than the first, where I’m self-consciously trying to be fun! I know this…

My closest friends know that I’m obsessed with writer Ann Patchett, mostly because I talk about her, you know, constantly. I could write a whole newsletter about my obsession with her (I might at some point—you’ve been warned), but for today, I’m…

Last week was tough, weather-wise. If you live anywhere that’s not the desert or the deep south, you are probably right there with me. Snow upon snow upon snow. And then a little more snow. And lots of subzero temperatures. All of this added up to…

My youth was filled with crappy cars. Or, more accurately: stories about crappy cars. By the early 1960s (a good 10 years before I came along), my parents had four kids crammed into that very Volkswagen Beetle you see pictured here. My oldest brother…