I didn’t know the color of the house I lived in. For years I thought it was one color: beige. Then a few years ago, my whole family signed the pledge for Screen Free Week…
“Once I get through this and things settle down, I’ll be fine.” This might be the lie I tell myself most often. When have things ever settled down? After my kids were born? My divorce?…
You don’t need to tell your kids not to chew on rocks. The rocks will teach them that lesson. No need to shout, “No! Yucky! We don’t eat rocks!” How silly. At least that’s what…
“You need to respect my boundaries” is a very common yet misleading statement. Boundaries are extremely popular these days and a highly important, but often misunderstood tool. Boundaries are not expectations for other people’s behavior.…
I had an insight at a lecture about insights. I was in the auditorium of the Allen Institute, having just wrapped up delivering a training on creativity for laboratory scientists (more on that later.) I was…
I think a lot about what would be fun. When I’m onstage as an improviser I’m focused on what would be a fun choice in the scene I am in. When I’m teaching or training,…
“I’m going to get bad grades and then I can’t ever have screens!” my eleven-year-old yells, tears coming to his eyes. I could see Sebastian was already far up his mental ladder. “Hold on! Hold…