Stepping Back, Stepping Forward
The end of the last decade has been one of tremendous growth and opportunity for me. It’s also been a time of great introspection on my personal values, the things that I want to accomplish personally and professionally, and creating the life and family that I want to grow old and pass on with. So it’s only fitting that, as I walk into this new decade of my life, that I develop a special vision for 2020 (sorry, I just had to).
If We Doh Laugh...
There’s been an ongoing conversation about ‘political correctness’ and ‘cancel culture’ ‘killing comedy’. The fact that all of those phrases kind of had to exist in quotes is telling, to me, but I want to examine it just a bit further. The comment by comedians and those who enjoy comedy worldwide is that they should have the unaffected right to do what they are called to do - make people laugh. And that argument is compelling in its simplicity. But it’s also simple enough that it includes things in its definition that perhaps it should not…