“There’s a thin line between civilization and chaos, and that line is electricity.” ~Charles Haden Savage, played by Steve Martin in Only Murders in the Building The wildly popular Only Murders in the Building series on Hulu often lays down hard truths in the wake of its comedy. The most…

A new episode of the JoyProject podcast dropped today — The Joy of Winnie-the-Pooh with Christine Caccipuoti. It’s available at this link and everywhere you get your podcasts. You can also hear it by clicking the YouTube link above. Childhood joys never leave…

Milan is known for its majestic Duomo Cathedral, the La Scala opera house, Sforza Castle, and now a model for how today’s cities can mitigate food waste and hunger. Whenever I talk to people about providing incentives to restaurants and grocery stores to give away good food rather than toss…

When people ask me, “what do you do?” my response is always, “have you got a minute?” If they say yes, I say, “I’m a digital product developer / business leader / journalist / author / biomimicry scientist / public historian / tour guide, and I kicked cancer’s ass during…

Just when all seemed lost, Senators Schumer and Manchin surprised us with a climate bill that might just make it through the Senate. Everyone, myself included, thought the bill was relegated the the blockhole of policy land and would never see the light of a vote. …

“Let’s start at the very beginning. A very good place to start.” Julie Andrews, Do-Re-Mi in The Sound of Music As writers, sometimes we have to start at the end. In my previous books, I started at the beginning and wrote all the way through to the end. It’s how…

A new episode of the JoyProject podcast dropped today—The Joy of Photography with Amy Selwyn. It’s available at this link and everywhere you get your podcasts. Smartphones have turned all of us into photographers. We take pictures of our friends and family, our…

First drafts, of writing and any project in life, can be difficult. The proverbial blank page stares at us and we’re so concerned about getting things exactly as we want them to be in the end that we forget all creative acts are a process of becoming. …

Hello, lovely writers. Do you know Eric Smith, author and agent extraordinaire? If not, please get to know him because he’s a ray of light in the writing community. …