One day, my wife and I made the decision in a Crate & Barrel to buy grapefruit spoons. We even went and bought several grapefruits and ate them with those grapefruit spoons. But it never became a habit. We moved several times after that, and… Read More
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Let’s Talk About Cats
Picture a cat. Now picture that cat in your home, somewhere near you. What do you imagine that cat doing? Don’t overthink it. Whatever immediately came to mind when I said to imagine a cat in the room with you works fine. Got it? So,… Read More
The Be Here Now Box
Last semester I chose to take a stand on student phone use in class. I wasn’t just getting the occasional person doing a bad job hiding that they were texting in the middle of class. People would take out their phones multiple times during an… Read More
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Simple Fluid Portable Musical
If I had my druthers, I would have a writing shed. Some windows, a power outlet for my laptop and some speakers, and a desk wide enough to spread out some notebooks and a coffee mug. A wall for a cork board and dry erase… Read More
The Four Noble Truths (for Protagonists)
This is a play on the Four Noble Truths of the Buddha, making some alterations to suggest a way of looking at character and storytelling. 1. All protagonists suffer. We don’t watch movies about people who are content unless those people are about to have… Read More
