Happy Happy! My granddaughters are happy! Their grandmother is happy! Their great-grandmother is happy! I’m happy! Following up on my previous Reading Legacy post- Cartoonist/Ilustrator and great friend Peter Menice (Petermenice.com) ‘translated’ the… Read More
Just in time for the really first cold snap of the season, the Fat Wood Fairy left a burlap sack on our porch. One of the reasons I’m known as “One Match” is… Read More
A few days ago, after a visit to Ernest Thompson Seton’s Santa Fe homestead, now in the wonderful hands and hearts of The Academy for the Love of Learning(http://www.aloveoflearning.org/ I found myself browsing… Read More
I’m in San Fransisco to take part in the Poetics of Aging Conference (poeticsofaging.org) I thought this would be a good time to say a little about the Endangered Stories Act and to… Read More
There are times when one suddenly sees or understands an old familiar tale in a new light. Yesterday was one of those days. My old friend, Storyteller Orunumamu says that a feather is… Read More
I’m writing from Alaska where we just finished performing at the Kenai River Watershed Festival this past weekend. I had an encounter at the end of the first day that moved me deeply.… Read More
Two recurrent themes have jumped out at me as I participate in the Reinvention summit. Storytelling is a tool for relationship, and that everyone has a story to tell. I thought I’d pass… Read More
Here’s a story that has a lot of resonance for me lately. My partner Liz Mangual and I have adapted it from a version by Jim May we found in More Ready to… Read More
A wonderful and unexpected package arrived at my door today. It’s a box containing dozens of pieces of fatwood sent by my wonderful friend Sid Byrd from Flaundreau South Dakota. Sid is a… Read More
