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Jan 27, 2022

Stuart gets interviewed by a class at the historically all-women Hollins University in Virginia. Here’s the deal: BOTH women and men typically acknowledge that women are better listeners than men. The big questions this class addresses: why? And what if anything is changing for the better? Jointly recorded with...


Jan 20, 2022

I have three daughters and only one son. So I know girls need to be heard as well as women. And I know I don’t do the best job of listening to my own daughters, now very capable young women all. So I practiced listening to my niece Lily at age 9. I discovered she could hold her own in a conversation of more than an...


Jan 13, 2022

My kids would call some of the things my Aunt says #CRINGE. My 24 year old son would call it a #HotTake to say the least. I just say she’s from a completely different place and time. Specifically, Anniston, Alabama and the first half of the 20th century. So when I ask her about the Freedom Riders bus burning, look...


Jan 6, 2022

My friend Kevin asked me to fly with him to Montgomery to record hours of interviews with his 100 year old grandmother, Alice Cumbus. We watched Bama Football together. We went to church (and I did not burst into flames). We talked for hours. Two years later, at age 102, Alice died. Kevin can’t think about that...