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Retelling Folk Tales: How Laughing Helps Craft the Story

What do you like about comedy or a funny story?

For me it’s the people and what happens to them after their heads go on vacation; without them. It’s also a reminder to stop and enjoy the humor in daily life. Besides, laughing is fun. It creates endorphins. It lowers blood pressure and reduces stress. It’s also contagious and people love it.

Laughter and Storytelling

Laughter spikes…

8 Tips for Telling Fairy Tales

Do you still love great stories about Tortious and the Hare, Cinderella or Snow White?

What about stories of giant slayers; of clever women or of enchanted kingdoms?

Hands up … ?

Yup … mine too.

Stories are genetically contagious. They’re hardwired into our DNA. They add sizzle and pinazz to our day. They captivate, inspire and entertain us. Great stories are told from one person…

DNA Catrostrophy – Minotaurs’s Labyrinth

Have you ever been fascinated by the seemly-endless, confining shapes of a labyrinth?

For centuries, people have been fascinated by the labyrinth’s internally snaking pathways. During the Middle Ages, people believed pilgrimages and labyrinths helped them get closer to God or to attain spiritual enlightenment. Labyrinths were a poor mans’ way ro4 spiritual attainment as walking a labyrinth…

Storytelling … Storyteller … Carmen Deedy

Who or what is a storyteller? What is storytelling?

Storyteller … storytelling … delightfully intriguing words, but really:

Humm … storyteller/storytelling, is it a person, a creature or an invasion? Great questions, especially when you know nothing; like me.

OK, I admit it. It’s called blissful ignorance. Knowing nothing about the creature or art form, I equated storytellers and…

Enhance the value of your voice through the power of story. For in story, as in life, its characters are as outlandishly adventurous, deviously mischievous and outrageously zany as any of us truly are.

  Welcome to Storyooze

A delightfully-succulent, sensory-impacted, story-oozing blog. A blog filled with the raw spew-age of gloriously-gloppy, drizzling, dripping, story-ooze.

Story …

Life is as it is …

Change happens … Now what? 

Life is different. New things unfold.

Story is the meaning we add to the experiences of our lives

Ooze …

Murky, sludge-induced slim at the bottom of a pond.…

Tour of Duty – Military & Civilian

“Hello. I’m writing from home but it’s not my home. and your. Living in a place that is not my home.”

One person. Military life. Civilian life. Two identities. A soldier. A civilian. The same person.

In a neomorphic collision of lives, Soldiers interchange their identities.

Military life encompasses uniforms, uniformity, leadership, preparedness, and training. Soldiers provide…

Robbery – Different Reponses

Being an ill-fated gofer between a forced cash withdraw and the barrel of a gun isn’t high on the average person’s list of Sunny Summer Day Activites. For most, it would land on the Worst Day Ever Scenarios to be Avoided at All Costs list.

Being o the non-trigger end of the gun is terrifying. Fortunately for me, nothing else happened. For others, facing the end of a gun while a robbery is…

Robbery – Different Reponses

Being an ill-fated gofer between a forced cash withdraw and the barrel of a gun isn’t high on the average person’s list of Sunny Summer Day Activites. For most, it would land on the Worst Day Ever Scenarios to be Avoided at All Costs list.

Being o the non-trigger end of the gun is terrifying. Fortunately for me, nothing else happened. For others, facing the end of a gun while a robbery is…

Reporting for Duty – Soliders’ Double Identy

Soldiers switch hats between two lives and identities. Military life and civilian life.

Military life commands a call to duty. A call to service. It also means following orders.

Civilian life clamors for flexibility and spontaneity. Usually missing a designated chain of command and training manuals.

Uniforms, uniformity and orders dominate soldiers lives. Soldiers follow orders. They…

Craft a Story – Tell a Story – Be the Story

That can’t be about me … or is it?

Actually, it is. If you are telling a story it is about you.

But I’m not talking about me, I’m talking about someone else.

Still, it doesn’t matter. Stories are stories. We craft the story. We tell the story. We are the story. Our ideas and images come from somewhere. That somewhere is inside of us.

The stories we tell, tell us about ourselves. What we like or…

Escape – Time’s Clock

The day’s heaviness wears on. The clock ticks. Time slows. Traumatic experiences can leave us wondering if what happened really happened or if it is just an ill-fated dream, with morning only moments away. Emotional heaviness and uncertainty, not previously there, can embrace the familiarity of estranged friends; their absence now threatening to pull us away from something or someone we once…

Welcome to the Gutenberg Editor

Of Mountains & Printing Presses

The goal of this new editor is to make adding rich content to WordPress simple and enjoyable. This whole post is composed of pieces of content—somewhat similar to LEGO bricks—that you can move around and interact with. Move your cursor around and you’ll notice the different blocks light up with outlines and arrows. Press the arrows to reposition blocks…

Listen: A Place to Begin Part ll

Yes, tell, do tell so more! It was as delightful watching the audience as it was the storyteller! Many thank you’s and much appreciation for the unnamed storyteller in the previous blog post and her inspirational frog vocalist!

Next, let’s tune into and listen to author and storyteller Carmen Agra Deedy for some story-inspiration and interaction in her crafting and telling a personal story…

Listen: A Place to Begin (Part 1)

“Tell! Tell! Do tell! Tell me a story!” The very words which catapult storytellers into action. Spinning stories into life, the tellers immerse themselves into the reality of story’s journey. Listeners quiet, gasp, quake, laugh, cry and nod, as they too experience the reality of the story’s unfolding.

This is all great, but now, I want to be the one telling a story and engaging the audience.…