March 3, 2020
The summer of 2014 was the lowest point of my life. I had just been fired by NBC Sports. I had a wife, three young kids, and a brand-new jumbo mortgage. I spent most of those fun-filled summer days in emotional free-fall, on a sickening roller coaster of fear and shame...
August 9, 2019
My good friend Chris Jackson, who, like me, has a son on the Fairfield National Little League 11U team (11U stands for kids age 11 and under), likes to needle me for constantly sniffing around for the dark side of this story: some hidden cost that’s secretly accruing,...
June 26, 2019
THE NEW YORKER's Jia Tolentino put this in words much better than I've been able to these past few months.
I'm sorry to be so out of touch, friends. Below is pretty much the reason why. It's not an excuse - and I plan to do better. But this is pretty much the explanatio...
January 18, 2019
Greetings friends! Our Written Out Loud Winter Session Storytelling Classes launch in BUT ONE WEEK, in both Bridgeport and Chicago. If you or your child is looking for an inspiring creative outlet, check out our Brand New Official Explainer Video, below. You can regist...
December 20, 2018
Good holiday season, friends! I know everyone is running around gasping with good cheer and goodwill towards men, punctuated by occasional suicidal/homicidal impulses. Or vice versa.
REGARDLESS.
The Written Out Loud Storytelling School has four (4) exciting announ...
December 5, 2018
Holiday greetings, friends! If you've been reading some of my earlier hollerings, you may know that Jen and I launched the Written Out Loud Storytelling School this past fall. It's been an amazing, inspiring success.
Two classfuls of kids - middle-schoolers and high-sc...
November 15, 2018
Quick post for my NYC-area friends. This Saturday at 5:30 PM bringeth the New York premiere of a short documentary I directed called HOMBRES NUEVOS. It's about one of the most remarkable human beings I've had the privilege to meet, Luis Mancheno. To tell you anything m...
October 31, 2018
The best teacher I ever had died yesterday morning. His name was Eric Rothschild. My Scarsdale friends knew him, and the lucky ones, like me, knew him well.
Rothschild taught AP American History with a vivid, animated brilliance that made him a living legend. Scarsdale...
October 28, 2018
[NOTE: I wrote this blog post yesterday morning, before learning about the horrific shooting in Pittsburgh. I don't intend to throw this spoonful of feel-good movie chatter into the midst of such a dark moment. Then again, if a little light reading about the "movie of...
October 12, 2018
Friends! Through an odd quirk of calendaring I have a whole bunch of stuff premiering this month, as well as a couple of Exceedingly Rare public appearances, one of which is potentially humiliating. I’ll save that one for last.
HERE THEY ALL ARE. Or as they say in certa...
