by McKenzie Wren | Aug 12, 2019 | Blog
The pace of technological change far outpaces my ability to keep up. I feel pretty bad-ass when I update the plugins on my website (even though my website is out of date!) I know about “zaps” and Buffer and SEOs and most days my smart phone doesn’t...
by McKenzie Wren | Mar 7, 2019 | Blog
With all the accelerated whirlwinds that make us lurch from thing to thing, I am advocating for the slow dialogue movement! The slow food movement has been around for a long time and there are also slow design and slow cities movements, so why not slow dialogue? I...
by McKenzie Wren | Nov 1, 2018 | Blog
In my work helping people have courageous conversations across differences, I am often asked about how these conversations line up with keeping the peace at work or how one is supposed to just carry on after not just a misunderstanding but after very real differences...
by McKenzie Wren | Oct 7, 2018 | Blog
My beloved and I play Words with Friends – an online game that vaguely resembles Scrabble. Words with Friends is way looser and allows you to play words like “ut” or “thouing” – words that many dictionaries don’t recognize and certainly that you never use...
by McKenzie Wren | Jul 5, 2018 | Blog
So begins the teller of tales: “Once upon a time there was a people on the edge of destruction: personally, globally and environmentally. These people lived out of relation to the Earth and each other.” When the children hear this, they are wide eyed with...
by McKenzie Wren | Mar 12, 2018 | Blog
I love language and I love how language is alive, dynamic and changing and I also love and hate the problems of trying to express emerging norms in outdated language. I especially hate trying to fill in check boxes or having to quickly describe someone’s...
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