Category: Personal

  • Kayaking, crabbing and correcting: my Hero’s Journey?

    I’ve been trying to get out on my kayak this summer. But I’ve spent the last two weeks completing the mammoth final section to Storyteller Uprising. It’s a standalone piece, tentatively titled The Storyteller’s Seven Hard Truths to Manipulation in a Networked World (coming soon!). I finally went out this morning after putting the finishing…

  • Everybody’s talking about revolution, evolution…

    Not sure which song should be running through my head after getting a tour of Montreal’s Queen Elizabeth Hotel’s Room 1742: Give Peace a Chance (which John Lennon recorded there in June 1969 during his historic 10-day bed-in with his wife), or You Can Be My Yoko Ono. The staff at the Queen Elizabeth were remarkably…

  • I’m quite ready for another adventure

    For some reason, I can’t get that Return of the Kings quote from Bilbo Baggins out of my head, as he sets off for the Grey Havens during the third ending of that very long film. But these days, as a father of two, “adventure” takes on a new definition. No more war zones for…

  • King Tut, storytelling and the Lytro light field camera

    I attended the opening King Tut gala last night at the Pacific Science Center (I’m on the Board of Directors). Obviously, the story of Tut is an amazing one — boy king who dies at 19, but fulfills the pharaoh’s objective of eternal life by being glorified when his tomb is discovered in the 1920’s.…