The Story Economy Blog

I used to sit in the back of Sr. Cecilia’s Freshmen English class and scribble poetry. I wasn’t much interested in what we were reading. Nathaniel Hawthorne and Thomas Hardy were old guys whose problems in no way jived with mine. But I got…

This tiny sign, stuck haphazardly along the road, caught my eye the other day. My first thought was: Really, this is your ad campaign? Just coming right out and saying “Be a foster parent”? You expect a side-of-the-road command against the…

Sometimes I wonder what would have happened in Pride and Prejudice if Elizabeth Bennet had just been able to do a Google search of Mr. Darcy ahead of time? I think it would have looked something like this: Mr. Darcy | LinkedIn Derbyshire area; Lord of…

My whole life, I hated coffee. I mean, of course I drank Frappuccinos and the like. But the stuff inside actual coffee pots at home? Bitter. Battery acid. Ick. And then I had a kid. My go-to drink for morning wake up—water—wasn’t cutting it on…

It’s going to sound, for a minute, like I am writing about religion this week. But I’m really not. I’m writing about the traveling of ideas through brains and through time. A tiny little piece of it involves a conversation I had about…