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In the movie Patch Adams, Robin Williams plays a larger-than-life doctor who combines medicine with caring, silliness, and giggles. I never met Patch, but I know someone who has — Greg Tamblyn — and he wrote about it in his delightful book Atilla the Gate Agent: Travel Tales & Life Lessons from a Musical Laf-ologist. |
Posts Tagged ‘good conversation questions’
How Patch Adams Learned to Talk to Anyone
Monday, July 27th, 2009Yes, We Have Conversation Bananas!
Tuesday, February 24th, 2009The Queen of Conversation is my name, and good conversation questions are my game. Friends ask, “How do you think up all those questions?” (Enough for two e-books, so far. The first one is called Do You Squeeze the Toothpaste in the Middle? Playful Questions for Dates and Mates.) The short answer is three ways: the news, books (especially self-help books), and personal experience.
So here’s the Question of the Third Kind that came to mind last week: (more…)
New Year’s Resolutions and Conversation
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009New Year’s Resolutions are like the weather. Everybody talks about them, but nobody does anything about them. Okay, I exaggerate. A little. I always make a resolution I can keep because it makes me feel good about myself. Here’s a terrific one I make year after year: “I resolve not to make any more resolutions this year.” You’re welcome to borrow it.
It’s already January 6th, so here are some good conversation questions in case you’ve already asked everybody the usual “What are your resolutions for 2009?” (more…)