This is a great article from the Wall Street Journal called “Story Time: The Heck with looking foward. There’s value in looking back.” It is about the wisdom of telling stories from the past to younger family members as “a deft way to transmit lessons about life while strengthening generational bonds.” It also includes this provocative quote from Austrian psychiatrist and Holocaust ...
My wife Kate Marshall, who is more prolific on Red Room than I, mentioned recently that one of her Red Room friends was interested in submitting a book proposal to my day-job employer: Berrett-Koehler Publishers in San Francisco (I'm the Director for Digital Communities in the editorial department), so I thought I should put a general post to Red Room members. If you write ...
Since it's almost Father's Day, I will answer this question from my DIY autobiography book. If I had any trouble with my father while I was young it was in this area: My dad was a Methodist minister with an unbelievable passion to save the world in the 1960s in the era of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King. He moved his family from Kansas to a black Chicago ghetto to help fight for ...
