Stories of How We Show Up
I recently had the opportunity to go back to Princeton University, for my Class’ 30th reunion. This was especially meaningful for me, since I haven’t been back on campus for nearly three decades. Princeton – the ...
A National Storytelling Initiative to Help Us Listen More Deeply, Reconnect More Honestly, and Imagine a Future Where We All Belong America has always been a nation of stories. And clearly, for some time now, ...
The Power of Vulnerability A year ago, I made a choice that changed me: I decided to trust more. Trust my intuition, trust my team, and trust the journey I’m on — to trust the ...
This is a message to the undecided voter, and to the voter who doesn’t think their vote will matter. I haven’t written much about the presidential election this year, except to comment on the change ...
A friend #CheckedIn with me last week, during which I shared this description of what my family life was like growing up: Brilliant and Broken. You see, Dad was a doctor. Mom was an opera ...
“Can you think of an experience when you felt unwelcome, or that you didn’t belong? What was the situation? What did you perceive the signals to be? How did that make you feel?” This is ...
“What time even is it right now?” I thought to myself as I spent another Sunday evening cramming away at building another lesson for my 9th-grade students that would inevitably blow up into fragments of ...
Hey America! Happy Fourth of July! Are you bored with Black Lives Matter yet? Of course some of you are. I can hear it, read it and watch it. The conversations are turning, because some ...
“You are a Joseph,” my mother used to say to me. It was her way of saying I was a bridge between people. A connector of the unexpected sort. I’ve always known this to be ...
I originally shared this on May 30th. And unsurprisingly, you can substitute “last night” in the first paragraph for any point in time over the past four weeks and it is still relevant. This is ...
