Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feiler
Bruce Feileris an American writer and television personality. He is the author of 12 books, including six consecutive New York Times nonfiction best-sellers. He writes the "This Life" column in the Sunday New York Times and is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible and Sacred Journeys with Bruce Feiler...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth25 October 1964
CountryUnited States of America
children goal schedules
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control over their lives.
parent world today
It's like they say in the Internet world — if you're doing the same thing today you were doing six months ago, you're doing the wrong thing. Parents can learn a lot from that.
writing library eras
I was so naive about writing, I went to the public library and checked out the only volume they had on the topic - an academic treatise about publishing from the WWII era.
writing world force
One question hovers over all of us who choose to spend our lives writing: why keep doing this in a world where so many forces are aligned against us?
spiritual connections generations
I'm a fifth generation Jew from the South, and I would say that I felt this connection to my religion, but it wasn't a spiritual connection.
hate book confession
Here's a confession: I hate parenting books. I hate the ones that are earnest and repetitive.
kids dinner heard
Everybody has heard that family dinner is great for kids. But unfortunately, it doesn't work in many of our lives.
stories narrative inspired
There's a reason the Exodus story has inspired so many Americans. It's a narrative of hope.
thinking way stories
The way to tell a really big story, I think, is to tell a really small story.
skeletons lines want
The bottom line: If you want a happier family, bring those skeletons out of the closet.
memories school climbing
I'd say my best memory was climbing Mt. Fuji, and the worst memory was... trying to fit my feet into the free giveaway slippers at Japanese schools.
dialogue people stories time
The biblical story is in dialogue with the other stories of its time. And if the Bible can be in dialogue with other cultures, why can't the people who are descendants of the Bible be in dialogue with other cultures?