The Story Economy Blog

I’m trying to make May be May, but it’s not going so well. Everything that is May to me—family gatherings, milestone celebrations (someone is always graduating in a family as big as mine), anticipation of summer, planning vacation—is not…

I’m an empath, which means I tend to feel others’ emotions as my own. In the first days of the coronavirus shutdown, all I felt in my community was fear. I couldn’t run up the main street of my small town without crying. I would inhale everyone’s…

We’re all trying to get through this very hard, very weird, very devastating time. Give the money, help the people, sew the masks: I want to do it all, and I feel overwhelmed most days trying to figure out what to do. I have been able to identify one…

My mom has been trying to get rid of stuff. She is 85 and still lives in the house where I grew up. Though she has no plans to move from the house anytime soon, she’s doing this sly thing of making us take stuff home with us when we visit. A few weeks…

When I’m not writing essays about how I realized my daily glass of wine wasn’t so great, stories about teenage YouTubers, or books about honesty, I help hospitals figure out their web content. I spent a few days last week with the marketing team of…