A Folktale for Those With Closed Eyes and Flapping Mouths

March 31, 2011

I’ve never met the parents who are objecting to the ghost story I told their children … the story that none of them heard. However, in my mind’s eye, I imagine that they have no noses. They cut them off to spite their faces. You see, that small (but very vocal) group of parents have [...]

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Storytelling 101—Do Tell

May 26, 2007

I have good news and bad news for you, friends. The bad news: I can’t teach you to “be a storyteller.” The good news: You already are a storyteller, though you may not know it yet. What I can teach you is how to find a good story, some tips for making it your own, [...]

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Serena of the River. A Texas Tale.

April 17, 2007

Imagine a bundle of energy packed in a 5’8″ frame, with a shock of almost orange hair, a face covered in freckles, and a laugh that starts as the sound of a chicken cackling over a newly laid egg and ends as a donkey’s bray. If you’ve got that in your mind, it’s the storyteller [...]

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