Category Archives: Too XYZ
Looking Back on the AuGuest Extravaganza
I sit here on the morning of September 1, periodically singing Neil Diamond’s “September Morn” as I am wont to do on this morning every year. In addition to that silliness, I am also looking back over a highly successful experiment here at Too XYZ: The AuGuest Extravaganza. Over the last 30 days, six of …
Be Interesting, But Allow Others to Be So Too: By Laryssa Wirstiuk
I like to listen to stories. If you can tell me a captivating story, I will probably want to be your friend. However, listening for long periods of time can be exhausting. Very few people understand the art of conversation. Have you ever felt completely drained by a chatty, self-absorbed storyteller? These people don’t know …
James Franco is a Bad Influence, by J. Maureen Henderson
I have this habit where the more someone or multiple someones tell(s) me that I should like something (a person, a band, a movie, a brand of granola bar), the more I get it in my head that I’ll do just the opposite. A petty holdover from childhood that I’m trying to quit, but one …
My Guest Post at Everyday Bright
All kinds of things going on at Too XYZ today! To begin with, I wanted to promote my guest post over at Jen Gresham’s Everyday Bright. In it, I talk about the importance, to other people and to ourselves, of making sure we maintain plenty of “in person” communication and company with our friends in …
Dabbling in the "Taboo"
I do a lot of theatre. Most of my local “friends”, (as in, one’s to whom I could drive in an hour or less) were made through theatre over the years. Furthermore, a very large percentage of people in this “theatre circle” know one another. And have known one another for many, many years. In …
Ty Unglebower 