Trusting Dad To Do Right

Staging To Kill A Mockingbird this year has been a lucky choice. The audience is motivated — and briskly buying advance tickets — by the book's well publicized fiftieth anniversary. It's just our dumb luck that the media is celebrating Harper...

Amplified Introversion

An Alarmingly Beautiful Reader of Net Cotton Content said to me recently, "I think I must know everything about you." (I guess that hardly narrows it down. For you, too, are alarmingly beautiful. Unless, of course, you're a guy — and then you're just...

Get out!

Sunny. Warm. Comfortable in shirtsleeves. Lush from recent rains and a morning of heavy fog, the day-long dew in the air cools each breath.Our campus is truly beautiful today. Students are lounging on the grass — and throwing Frisbees — and reading —...

Are You Keystone Curious?

Rob asked to borrow my projector, so I was showing him how it works. Because projectors used to cost a lot of money — and the replacement light bulbs used to cost hundreds of dollars — I can get pretty urgent and self-important on the care and proper use of the...

What is Art?

It's been a generous week, riding the cultural gravy train with my mother. Last weekend, we attended a live telecast — in our local cinema — of The Metropolitan Opera from New York City. Then, last night, New York City came to us in the form of the Merce...

Up, up and away

So, it's come to this. I'm weighing in on Balloon Boy. I floated this trial balloon (sorry) in my keynote on creativity yesterday at SummitUp. (I also enjoyed the other keynotes: Lewis Howes on Linkedin, Kevin Dugan on storytelling in social marketing, Bob...