Told by Megan Hicks Click to listen Hicks I wrote this story about twenty years ago. It came about one full moon night when I was sitting around a fire with a bunch of other women and one of my friends said, “When Job was enduring his travails, I wonder what his wife was going […]
The Atlantic (Washington, DC), December 2013 Summary: Most parents know about the benefits of reading stories from books with their young children. Yet what most parents don’t know is that everyday family stories confer many of the same benefits of reading–and even some new ones. Over the last 25 years, a small canon of research
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The Atlantic (Washington, DC), December 2013 Summary: Most parents know about the benefits of reading stories from books with their young children. Yet what most parents don’t know is that everyday family stories confer many of the same benefits of reading–and even some new ones. Over the last 25 years, a small canon of
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told by Mike Agranoff Click to listen agranoff This is a story told in the old-fashioned format of recitation, a story in rhyme, after the fashion of Robert Service or Rudyard Kipling. This form was common stage and home entertainment in the 19th Century before the advent of recordings and radio. It was regular fare
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Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, AL), November 14, 2013 Summary: Tin Can Tales, a new series of intimate storytelling events featuring community members including University of Alabama students, faculty members, writers and others, begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Bama Theatre’s Greensboro Room. Each tale-teller will share experiences in first-person narrative, with each installment of the
Tuscaloosa News (Tuscaloosa, AL) , November 14, 2013 Summary: Tin Can Tales, a new series of intimate storytelling events featuring community members including University of Alabama students, faculty members, writers and others, begins at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in the Bama Theatre’s Greensboro Room. Each tale-teller will share experiences in first-person narrative, with each installment of
Told by Laura J. Bobrow Click to listen laurabobrow Selecting a story to tell from among my repertoire of more than 500 stories, poems and anecdotes was, to say the least, daunting. I chose this from one of my CDs, “I Wrote These for You.” Little details please me. Not everyone needs to get the
To Persuade People, Tell Them a Story Wall Street Journal (New York, NY), November 9, 2013 Summary: Paul Smith had 20 minutes to sell the CEO of Procter & Gamble, and his team of managers, on new market-research techniques for which Mr. Smith’s department wanted funding. As associate director of P&G ‘s market research, Mr.
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Bristol Post (Bristol, UK), October 24, 2013 Summary: Visitors can enjoy tall tales of salty sailors at the SS Great Britain’s Crew Capers Family Storytelling event. Inspired by true events, the ship’s resident storyteller, Sarah Mooney, will bring the sailors’ stories to life with her gruesome embellishments and fabulous flourishes on October 29 and 31.
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Orillia Today (Orillia, Ontario, Canada), October 24, 2013 Summary: One year after Orillia’s inaugural ‘Canadian Storytelling Night’ drew an audience of about 50 people to a downtown space for an evening of tales and songs, organizers are preparing a follow-up with a twist. “The idea is to create an annual event that can give storytellers
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