The Story Economy Blog

We don’t have an ocean in Ohio. We don’t have centuries-old ruins or tourist magnet cities. We’ve got good things, though, if you know where to look. So, a few weeks ago, when my husband and I decided we desperately needed a weekend to ourselves…

I had an awesome 10-mile run on the last day of 2013. So awesome, that I decided 2014 should be the year I run the Cincinnati Flying Pig marathon again in May. It’s been four years since I’ve done a marathon. I’m going to be 40 this year (yes, I am…

My kid Max likes to draw. Seeing as how it doesn’t require a TV or mobile device or Wii remote, I encourage him to draw his little fingers off. Lately, my husband and I have been the beneficiaries of his creative outpouring. He spends Saturday…

I had a little eating problem in college. You know, I’m a girl, I’m white and middle-class, and I have overachieving tendencies. Plus, I came of age in the early 1990s, when “fat free” was the big thing. Was I really going to escape disordered…

The last few weeks of the year may be filled with twinkly lights and bright-eyed kids playing with new sets of Legos, but for me, they’ve always felt like a bridge between the old and the new—between the stuff you carry with you into the new year,…