It's Release Day 2026! Congratulations to all who celebrate. I do. Or at least I am, this year. Release Day is an initiative from CreativeMornings — a chance to spur creative types like you and

  Last Friday night, I had the chance to return to Mezrab – Amsterdam's house of stories – for the first time in many years. I had the chance to tell a story. Sneakily, the

Humans don’t just make stuff. In fact, I heard it described recently as this: humans are makers of lines. Bridges, roads, gardening, supermarkets, paintings, even words… they’re all made of lines. In one sense, that’s

  I'd just introduced a Meisner repetition exercise at a corporate communications workshop. Thirty-eight professionals from two different departments – people who worked in parallel but rarely together – all staring at me with faces that quite

I just got back from a weekend in Disneyland. Well, technically, it was Disneyland Paris for one day, followed by a weekend in Brussels. Unorthodox, I know; I don't think lots of people follow up

  The Polish Professional Women's Society of the Netherlands recently celebrated their 10th anniversary. I was lucky enough not only to be invited to the gala dinner, but to host it. It was a delightful

Last night I taught an online comedy writing workshop and introduced the group to one of my favorite writing exercises. It comes from James Altucher, and it's dead simple: write down ten ideas and be

This past weekend Amsterdam's IJ was absolutely jammed with sailboats – like hundreds and hundreds of them from 24 countries – tall ships, historic vessels, yachts, and all kinds of nautical quirkiness. SAIL happens every

This morning I was running some errands, because I have things to take care of and they're never finished. In the span of a couple short minutes, I spotted two differen guys wearing what I