Tag Archives: my stories
Of special powers, ADHD, dyslexia and autism
Imagine your kid has special powers. She can read minds, has penetrating vision, superhuman hearing. She can go a million miles a minute. That’s my daughter, Kai: hyperactive, dyslexic, autistic. I was ironing her latest Fuse Bead creations tonight — a purple-legged octopus, an orange-and-yellow-tipped star, intricately patterned hearts, a tiny dog with the appropriate [...]
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Baking a pie and wondering what my grandkids will call me
I’m baking a peach pie and it got me into a reflective mood. My friend Dr. Mark Groshek posted this week about the fun he had with his nephews while they re-created the Titanic’s menu. I always have fun in the kitchen with my 9-year-old daughter, but this time I was going solo. Which meant [...]
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How I trimmed 1,900 messages and never felt hungry!
I reduced my work inbox from 1,904 messages to zero over the weekend. I can’t tell you the peace of mind. Back about 1,800 inbox messages ago, I started to fret. The scrolling screens of red unread messages were my hamster wheel. A thousand inbox messages later, I felt symptoms of drowning each time I [...]
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Somebody walking over my grave?
My sister, Teresa Krizman, saw this tombstone while visiting Crested Butte, Colo. Chills down the spine. Literally. BTW, for a Yahoo community discussion about the expression “BLANK walked across my grave,” go here. Tweet
Family teepee project: Too many chiefs; not enough Indians
I love my family, for all its weirdness. My aunt plans to live in a teepee in the badlands on the Colorado-Utah border, so of course the family got together to build it. We didn’t know what we were doing, but we had an instruction book and lots of opinions. The canvas fit the tangle [...]
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Three narratives told on Yoga Day
The Magician’s story In town only four days, she serendipitously had met the hostess of the Yoga Day USA open house just hours before. Now she stood in the suburban basement, surrounded by strangers sitting cross-legged on mats, and talked about her lineage. She is a descendant of ancient Jewish high priests and of Dakota [...]
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Video storytelling is a whole different game
I’ve been working for a couple of years on my video technical skills. In the past few months, I’ve concentrated more on the storytelling part. I have a long way to go, as my Vimeo portfolio will attest. Kai gives Granny a knitting lesson from Steve Krizman on Vimeo. What I’ve learned so far: Video [...]
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Help! my CPAP and undies are showing!
Fellow CPAP users: Do you check it or haul it through airport security? I’m a CPAP newbie, in the middle of a road trip. CPAP machine: oxygen mask that I wear so I don’t die in my sleep. A sleep study revealed that I stop breathing 42 times an hour, which is not good for [...]
My responsibility as a white guy
A sharp Metro State College student asked me about my earlier post on racism during my guest lecture yesterday. He seemed to get the gist of my story, but I could tell he was confused. I think I was too cute in that post, and I liked my answer I gave him better: As a [...]
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How I suffered an actual storytelling injury