What to Say to Connect with People

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about words. Not as a formal study, but as playful explorimentation. At random moments, my brain seems to naturally re-examine words I've spoken since I was a little kid. I'll try to guess their etymology and see if I was...

This one time at bandcamp. we were playing around with the size of our nows. Ok, to be honest, "this one time" was yesterday. And it wasn't at bandcamp. It happened in ​the dojo​. It's just that—as an elder millennial—I find it really hard to resist dropping an early...

Imagine the following scenario for a moment: You invited all your friends to be the test audience for your new theater show "the 24 hour monologue". This show means a lot to you, so you informed them it's important to you that they sit through the whole thing. The...