If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m on the Colin McEnroe Show tomorrow at 1 p.m. on WNPR, with newspaper columnist Tom Krattenmaker, author of “Confessions of a Secular Jesus Follower: Finding Answers in Jesus for Those Who Don’t Believe,” and Brian Clark of the Hartford Seminary. We’ll be talking about Christianity. I intend to learn a lot. UPDATE: In case …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m on NEXT with John Dankosky and Jim Klocke, CEO of the Massachusetts Nonprofit Network, talking about charitable giving in the holiday season. The show airs at 2 p.m. on Thursday, and again at 6 p.m. on Sunday on WNPR. UPDATE: You can hear the episode here.

If you’ve nothing better to do…

The Mark Twain House & Museum sponsors occasional events for writers in the man himself’s library in Hartford. This Thursday, starting at 6 p.m., I’ll be the writer-in-residence there. We’ll talk a little bit about process (I don’t have a writing process, so that will be short) and then we’ll all hunker down and spend …

Come to the Mark Twain Writers Weekend

It starts Friday night and continues through Sunday. Here’s a schedule. You can pretty much register at the last minute. I’m teaching a class on non-fiction research at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. BEFORE YOU START SNORING, I promise it won’t be dull. Come early! Come heckle!

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m on WNHH Radio (you can listen here) starting around 10 a.m. with Chris Stedman of the Yale Humanist Community, and Onyeka Obiocha, of the Happiness Lab. These two men are super-cool and I’m really going to have to bring my A-game. I hope you’ll listen and, if there’s an opportunity, I hope you’ll call in …

When it’s good to miss an anniversary

All this week, I thought today was the anniversary of my last day at my old newspaper, but this says no. Now along with multiple other things I’ve forgotten, I can’t remember the date of my last day at Mother Courant. I guess that’s a good thing. It means I’ve moved on, sort of. I wanted to …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

…I’m at Hartford’s historic Old State House for their very first Table Talk program at noon today. We’ll talk about housing, poverty, the Presidential election, and anything else you’d like to bring up.  I hope you’ll come. This is a new program at the Old State House and it would be cool to kick it off …

If you’ve nothing better to do…

I’m on WNPR’s “Where We Live” on Thursday, starting at 9 a.m. I’ll be appearing with Rex Fowler, who leads the Hartford Community Loan Fund, and Jeff Gentes, of Connecticut Fair Housing Center. They’ll be talking about tax liens, which I wrote about here. (And as an aside, Bro. Rex is also a refugee from the …