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Must  Love Be A Bent Butterknife?   My mother was a creative problem solver. In her pragmatic approach to life, she plowed ahead, assessed the situation, dealt with it, and moved on. Still, her ‘problem-solution-what’s next’ approach often resulted in negative...

Does It Matter? We were in New Brunswick or was it Nova Scotia? There was a donut shop at the gas station. Was it a Tim Horton’s or a Red Robin?  Does it matter? I stopped and Sue got out to take a break. She was already walking away from the car as I opened my door...

A Real Account Of A Fictional Interview With A Tall Tale Teller

Bring Back The Ampersand!    “Where do stories come from?” They asked. “And?” You said,  “What?” “And!   That’s where stories come from.”  There is a pause before you continue, addressing their confusion.  “Stories come from wanting more. ‘And?’  That means...

There are thoughts that evoke meaning and come in riddled form. I suppose the word is poetry? These thoughts came to me after working with 6 other tellers. We shared and supported each other in our storytelling, and the next day, their tales melted into verse, a taste...

It was thought provoking, walking down those old stone steps, pushing back the brush, finding a path to the past. I asked “Where will these lead me? What’s the story here?”. There  must have been a hundred of them, a century old I was sure. ‘One per year’, I thought...