Paula Braun Jun 18, 2019 2 min Live Large and Make a Dent When it first went on air in 1981, Dr. Ruth Westheimer’s late night talk radio show, Sexually Speaking, defied expectations. The sex and ...
Paula Braun Feb 2, 2019 3 min Super Bowl and Cola Wars, I Can't Take It Anymore! Actually, that's a lie. I'm getting a kick out of watching Coke v. Pepsi unfold as the big game approaches. But I couldn't resist riffing...
Paula Braun Nov 3, 2018 2 min People Who Choose to Lead Seth Godin’s latest book, This is Marketing, is for people who choose to lead. It’s a blueprint for making change happen in which Godin i...
Paula Braun Oct 23, 2018 2 min Love after Loss Heals Our Deepest Wounds What prevents the darker parts of masculinity from being expressed? That question is at the heart of Dennis Kelly’s one-woman monologue G...
Paula Braun Oct 21, 2018 2 min Know Your Worth, Light Up the Darkness When it was first published in 2017, Angie Thomas’s novel The Hate U Give debuted at the top of the New York Times’s Young Adult Best Sel...
Paula Braun Oct 20, 2018 2 min Start Here, Now After he was elected in 2014, Ben Sasse emerged as one of the most conservative voices in the US Senate. Full disclosure, based on his vo...
Paula Braun Oct 11, 2018 3 min Love, Gilda Hits on the Truth Gilda Radner was the first person offered a role on the original cast of Saturday Night Live. In the film Love, Gilda director Lisa D'Apo...
Paula Braun Oct 11, 2018 2 min Happy Death Day Grandma Eighteen years ago my maternal grandmother died of a heart attack. I’m reminded of her death at this time every year, because she died on...
Paula Braun Sep 7, 2018 1 min Jokes are How We Avoid Violence and Other Insights from an Evening With Emo Philips In public, Emo Philips (a master comedian known for his keen intellect, falsetto voice, and irreverent one-liners) never, ever breaks cha...
Paula Braun Sep 6, 2018 3 min Seeking Beauty with Bill Cunningham “The only thing not to give up and to always believe is that ‘he who seeks beauty will find it’". Those are the closing thoughts Bill Cun...