Today’s guest has a very interesting life story. Here’s the abridged version: Drew Marshall was adopted, grew up in a funeral home,...

The ways we show we’re actively listening can differ from person-to-person, group-to-group, culture-to-culture. A few months ago I came...

Can listening to music make us more creative? Some sources point to ‘yes’, others to point to ‘no’. In a fascinating 2019 article by TIME...

Saturday Night Live might have been a total flop. After all, in looking back at the writers in the very first year of SNL, the big...

Growing up, improv scared the pants off me. I dreaded the moments where I had to think ‘off the cuff’ or make up a scene in front of the...

I’m going to come right out and ask it: Do you consider yourself a good listener? Or perhaps a better place to start is by asking: Do you...

Over the next three episodes in this Magazine Miniseries, we will hear from amazing people doing amazing work in the field of magazine...

Last year I read How to Break Up With Your Phone by award-winning writer and science journalist, Catherine Price and it was eye...

While I love podcasting and exploring storytelling in an audio format, my day job is as a lecturer at a university in Toronto, Canada....

For as long as I can remember I have wanted to write and publish a children’s book. When I was on maternity leave, four years ago with my...

In this final episode of this 3-part mini-series, Diana uses scissors to cut through different types of paper and plastic. This...

In this episode, Diana turns 248 pages of a textbook, from front to back cover. The gentle, rhythmic sound of hands running over 80# silk...

In this episode, Diana softly reads Chapter 2: The History of Print from the Introduction to Graphic Communication textbook by Harvey...

I have a little New Year’s Day tradition. Every New Year’s Day for the last four or five years I’ve done some goal setting and I don’t...

In all of the reading that I’ve done and positive psychology and the science of happiness, as well as the anecdotal memoirs of those who...

You’ve got a laundry list of things to do (including the laundry!) and you have no idea where to start. Might I suggest trying a simple,...

I recently read a story with my daughters called Claymates. It was awesome. It was about two blobs of clay: one grey and one brown who...

The rules are fake. What mainstream society has conditioned us to believe as the ‘right way’ to live life is simply not true. Settling...