The tree is down – all the needles have been vacuumed up and the ornaments carefully placed in the storage closet. The room looks bigger now: fresh, open and full of possibilities.  And so it is with this new year and this new decade. As we turn the page on 2009 and the aught years of the 21st Century, [...]

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  It was impossible to get a conversation going; everybody was talking too much.      – Yogi Berra Talk is everywhere these days – talk radio, opinion/editorial shows, YouTube, blogs, newsletters, Twitter, reality TV, meetings, presentations, the news. Talk, talk, talk – everyone sure has a lot to say. The question is: are we talking at one another [...]

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After a delayed flight and a wrong-way ride on the Metro, I arrived at my hotel too late to participate in the opening evening of the 9th Annual Story Weekend in Washington, D.C. last Thursday. While I was really disappointed, the remaining two days, by a wide margin, made up for that first evening’s mix-up. [...]

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