by McKenzie Wren | Apr 19, 2020 | Blog, Uncategorized
“Everyday is today,” said Tom Hanks on Saturday Night Live sometime in the last Groundhog day of quarantine. “There is no Saturday anymore.” The days just blur together and, to paraphrase Dylan Thomas, “One day was so much like another that I don’t remember if I had...
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 I feel pretty bad-ass when I update the plugins on my website (even though my website is out of date!)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...
