The Story Economy Blog

A few weeks ago, I took my 10-year-old son to Los Angeles for a freestyle trampoline event on Venice Beach. I took him because he desperately wanted to go (he’s a very good freestyle flipper—that’s him below) and I wanted to write more about this…

  Complexify. Isn’t that a lovely-sounding word? Its meaning, to add complexity, is even better. I know you’re thinking, Wait a minute, isn’t it all supposed to be about simplifying? Isn’t that what every single article is about? What…

I’m kind of obsessed with Instagram. This is hardly shocking. But I’m not going there to do the things we love to do on social media (i.e. compare ourselves to others, or vent and get pulled into vicious back-and-forths on hot button issues). Nope.…

I just came off working the corporate show I write every summer. It’s a project that takes all of my resources for the month of July, including being onsite for the week of the event. Though it means long days where emotions sometimes run high, it’s…

The other day, there was a fight in my house over the last bag of BBQ chips. My husband buys these boxes of snacks at Costco. (Does anyone else know a grown man so completely obsessed with Costco? I need to write a piece about my husband’s love for…