One of the challenges of a distributed community is that it can be difficult to see the whole picture. As we find ourselves in the middle of the year, it’s worth stepping back and looking at what they add up to. [Redirects to MailChimp]
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A Lesson in Empathy
I have heard many positive things said by participants after a storytelling presentation. Some of the most memorable comments, however, have come from high school students. At a recent program at a public high school near my home in the Dallas area, we not only shared...
Optimism and Resiliency
This week I told my father's story to several classes of tenth graders at a local high school. My father, his parents, and his younger sister left Germany in 1933 to move to Czechoslovakia only to be living under Nazi rule once again in 1939. Through luck, courage,...


