I'm obsessed by the universality of Love Story as an expereince every single one of us, regardless of time, place, socio-economic status, can relate to. It's one of the chief ways we experience the Divine. And it is universally, deliciously, confusedly, overwhelming. Young, old, whomever you

Sometimes we find ourselves on the wrong mountain. And in that, everything is wrong. If we mistake that moment for our whole story, we misunderstand. When our journey is truly epic, the periods of our lives can take decades. Much of that is a messy, hard middle. A constant failing

Don’t mistake runway periods in your life for the entrance to your work. It’s only in looking back on the distinct stages of our life can we realize that it’s not that the earlier roads in our life were failed, it’s just that that road was

It’s that time of year when parents who have 12th graders are in a stir about helping their kids write personal statements for college applications and pleas to help them abound in my daily conversations as a story-whisperer. Although I’ve always said I’m interested in designing these

When I was in my second year of college I was lucky enough to take Western Civ with the great cultural historian, Karl Joachim Weintraub. Little did I know that walking into this class and experiencing Professor Weintraub, listening to how he spoke about History and its relationship to the

A distinction I often play with is Internal vs. External Storytelling in the context of our daily professional conversations and communications, both formal and informal. The function, the purpose of this storytelling, guides the form. I think of external in terms of “closed” story. Here we are not interested in

When I started out on my story quest I read every book I could find from every genre to try and sort out what was the strongest approach to crafting better stories. Turns out my ultimate answer lay in a structural approach to narrative that’s essentially good old Aristotle

I'm obsessed with unlocking the metaphor of "feminine power" in the simple act of translation, naming feminine power as "related power."  That's not just an idea I came up with. It's actually how I lived out the question. I'

I could tell you about the idea of Feminine Power as Related Power and although interesting it's not where the juice is. The juice is in my story of how I came to this understanding and the only question that matters: do you see yourself reflected back in

We’ve all heard cryptic lines about “feminine power” saving the world. What frustrated me from early on was that I needed to understand what that even meant for the power question I’m living out: how will I wield power? I’ve struggled with this question my whole life,