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Difficult Conversations Book Club: Let’s First Hear from Aunt Bertha
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Difficult Conversations: Book Club & Pod Club Announcement
In October, the focus of our Friendship Project turns to the subject of Difficult Conversations. Join us for upcoming book and pod club discussions on this important topic.
Children’s Book Club: “Brown Girl Dreaming”
How does one become a writer? Join us for a Children’s Book Club discussion of ‘Brown Girl Dreaming’ by Jacqueline Woodson.
Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970—More Than Just Different
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Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970 Book Club—The Writing Question
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Great Friendship Tales: Provence, 1970 Book Club—Friends With Edges
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Book Club Announcement: Provence, 1970
Great friendship tales often involve food. Provence, 1970 is the story of chefs M.F.K. Fisher, Julia Child, James Beard and others, one summer in the South of France. Join us for our next delicious book club discussion.
Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Ending and Reentry
As we close our book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider the closing of our events, and how to end well.
Book Club: The Art of Gathering: Making (and Breaking) Rules
In this week’s book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering, we consider how rules can provide the structure needed to make events more experimental, whimsical and democratic.
Book Club: The Art of Gathering—The Kindness of Exclusion (or, Not)
We begin our book club discussion of Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering with a look at the purpose of our gatherings and the need that sometimes arises to exclude, with kindness.
Book Club Announcement: Priya Parker’s The Art of Gathering
Priya Parker encourages us to create meaningful, transformative gatherings that shape “the way we think, feel, and make sense of our world.” Join us for our latest book club discussion of The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters.
Born to Be Good: Laughter Might Be the Best Medicine
Come laugh with us as we wrap up our book club discussion of Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good.
Born to Be Good: The Right Kind of Smile
The smile is like social chocolate. Join us for this week’s book club discussion of Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life.
Children’s Book Club: “Days of the Blackbird”
How do we survive the coldest days of winter? With a blackbird! Join us as we read Tomie dePaola’s “Days of the Blackbird” with Megan Willome as our guide.
Born To Be Good: The Jen Ratio
In our first Born To Be Good book club discussion, Dacher Keltner introduces the jen ratio, a means of measuring the “millisecond manifestations of human goodness.”
Book Club Announcement: Born to Be Good
Join us for our upcoming book club where we’ll be discussing Dacher Keltner’s Born to Be Good: The Science of a Meaningful Life, and the way that positive emotions define our humanity and contribute to the common good.
Storm in a Teacup: One Thing You Can’t Do While Spinning
We conclude our book club discussion of Helen Czerski’s Storm in a Teacup with a look at straight lines and spinning, and a dizzying trip into space.
Storm in a Teacup: Slowing to the Speed of Tea
In this week’s book club discussion of Helen Czerski’s Storm in a Teacup, we consider the importance of time, speed, and certain substances we’d rather not mention.
Storm in a Teacup: Rocket Post & The Ideal Gas Law
Today we knock around with gas molecules and imagine flights of fancy with Gerhard Zucker’s rocket post mail delivery in our first book club discussion of Storm in a Teacup.