Inspired by the work of Hospices for children dealing with grief issues and experiences, I have begun a new storytelling initiative called “Stories with Spirit.” SwS will bring live and recorded storytelling performances to hospitals, hospices and homes of ill children. Last week, I finished the first CD for SwS. It was amazing, grueling, fun [...]
I am so excited to be telling my stories this year at the National Festival! I went there once before and had so much fun that my face actually started cramping from smiling so much. I came away knowing I wanted to share my stories there with stories other artists and musicians. Hooray!
Stories from your life- because only you can tell your story
Please join me and my colleague, poet and friend Katharyn Machan Howd, on March 21, 2009 from 1-4 p.m. at the Community School of Music and Arts, 330 E. State St., next to Mayer’s Bookstore for a wonderful workshop that focuses on turning memories, moments, [...]
I am so lucky to work with Mary Stewart, a storyteller originally from Florida and now living in Vermont. Mary is a tall and strong woman, with chapped hands and red cheeks. She lives a simple life in a cabin in a small Vermont town. She cooks, grinds corn, grows her own food and plants [...]
I went to my healing school today , www.IMschoolofhealingarts.com, to observe a third year ritual, called the presentation. It is the culmination of lecture, energy work and inquiry into characterology structure and ways of being, fulfillment and being with what is rather than what one wishes. Make no mistake, this is hard, hard work that [...]
…it is only the story that can continue beyond the war and the warrior. It is the story that outlives the sound of war-drums and the exploits of brave fighters.
It is the story…that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence. The story is our escort; without it, [...]
An aardvark ate an artichoke and asked Athena, “Another ?”
“Baby, baby, baby!” Big Boy bellowed, blowing big blue bubbles below Bobby’s bedroom.
Coyote loses his wife and howls. The Death Spirit agrees to take Coyote to his wife in the Land of the Dead if Coyote follows the rules.
Hunh! ”No problem,” says Coyote…
He follows Death Spirit, does it right, smiles, looks, keeps his hands to himself.
Gets to Land of the Dead. Sees his wife. Does [...]
I sing and make music with an amazing woman named Jayne Demakos. Jayne is the music director for Hospicare in Ithaca, NY as well as a pianist, harpist and singer , a composer and a director. She is currently creating a music CD for Hospice patients and their families. The project involves many skilled and [...]
Yesterday, I was performing at the Johnson Museum on Cornell University to celebrate their Art-full Saturdays and a new Aboriginal art exhibit. I had gone through the museum earlier in the month in order to find artifacts and match stories from around the world with them. I tried something I had used previously and forgotten; [...]
