Stories teach. Stories heal. Stories transform. Working with stories, both ours and others, can help us find meaning and live a more vibrant life. And stories may help us prepare for death. I don’t speak about that last from experience. For years I have...
Last week, during an informal presentation I gave on storytelling, a man asked me a fabulous question: ”I can tell that you’re a skilled performer, but how can the rest of us work with storytelling if we’re not that? The question sent me scurrying into my...
Saying “joy” and “dementia” in one sentence could sound like an oxymoron. Like many, I have a fear that I might someday lose part of my mind. Dementia’s not a far fetched concern: the stats on its occurrence rise significantly for every...
When the waves of change are high, stories help us navigate.Still, we need to be discerning and recognize bad stories when we hear them.I’m not just thinking of the 1964 film The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies that earned a...
Some like it hot. I do not. Or at least, not anymore. When I was a kid, swimming was my passion. Those hot, muggy New Jersey summer days often meant time splashing around at the beach or in the pool. Alas, my thermostat reset after I moved to the Northwest, and...
I’ve spent the weekend writing about legacy stories, a special part of the world of storytelling, in which you look back at your past, while still moving ahead. Often, a legacy story is one that you can pass down to another generation of people who care...
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