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BRAVING STORMS: Kate Quarfordt on Kicking Ass at Being Vulnerable

“What does being brave mean to you?” I ask my high school theater students. It’s fall of 2003, my third week of teaching. We’ve been working on…

LOVING YOUR WORK: James Braly on Role-Modeling for the Kids

I have children – boys, to be exact. And boys will become men. And men will have jobs (hopefully). (In my family, there’s an established tradition of men who…

LOVING YOUR WORK: James Braly on Work Circadian Rhythms

It’s amazing to me how many people in New York City eat breakfast at 10 in the morning. I once overheard an elderly lady, muffin and coffee in hand, searching…

LOVING YOUR WORK: Donna Brodie on Writers Room Cake

To be an adult is to have a primary relationship […]

Loving Your Work: James Braly on Stage Anxiety

I’d been a storyteller for a while when I was asked to host an evening of storytelling for the first time, on the theme of family dysfunction. This was a job—hosting…

Loving Your Work: James Braly on What You Believe vs. What You Do

I used to buy my morning paper at a little newsstand on the corner of West 83rd Street and Columbus Avenue run by Shahid, a sunny and trim Pakistani in his…