When I set out on a hot September day in 2023 to tape up JP Improv flyers along the Southwest Corridor, I wasn’t expecting to get bitten by a dog. The situation was awkward for both of us. He looked surprised to find the crook of a stranger’s elbow in his mouth. Like he didn’t… Continue reading Hair of the Dog
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How Improv Builds Community—and Why That Matters
Americans are lonely. As political scientist Robert D. Putnam points out in his book Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community, the average American’s connection with other human beings has fallen off a cliff since the 1970s, with devastating impacts on our health and politics. Loneliness has gotten so bad that, according to… Continue reading How Improv Builds Community—and Why That Matters
The Next Four Years
If the last two weeks are any indication, the next four years will be hard. In my day job as a marketer, I worked with nonprofit clients as they scrambled to respond to an unprecedented, illegal, and immoral freeze on federal funding—and talked with them about the mental and emotional impact of having that world-shattering… Continue reading The Next Four Years