Photo by Stella Rose Photography All my life I have wanted to put together a book about the Balinese deity, Rangda. She first captured my...

Two great storytelling events went virtual: the National Storytelling Network Conference and the San Francisco Free Folk Festival on June...

Yesterday I had the honor of opening for Bil Lepp on Sunday Stories, a weekly event from Six Feet Apart Productions. Needless to say I wa...

I was met with good news when I learned that the Live to Tell Series (two books so far) was awarded with Honors from Storytelling World. ...

I have been quietly working on a longer performance, and I say quietly because I have not performed in a month or two. But this Spring th...

On Sunday, December 8 at 4 pm in Bali, Indonesia, my father-in-law, Ketut Rutus Daryana, passed away. He was taken into the hospital in a...

Saturday, November 23 was TELLABRATION!™ , which is a storytelling event celebrated in nine different countries and in forty states in t...

For the past two years I have been co-teaching a class called Authentic Voices with the Sound Engineer at our school. My responsibility h...

November was kicked off this weekend with the SAC annual conference. Friday, November 8, featured a concert by Antonio Rocha, for which R...

That's what every one of my colleagues at Sonoma Academy is asking me and the two other teachers who are in Maui for a week to work on bu...

I was so pleased to be able to stay for all eight hours of the storytelling that took place at Cathryn Fairlee's home for the final time ...

The theme was "It Takes Two to Tango," and it led us all over: one-eyed owls, slaughtered pigs, wilderness survival, the October fires in...

Yes, it is finished and available at Amazon and Barnes & Noble Books. Whew! Of course, it wasn't like I was working on this every day, bu...

This time I was the featured teller, which is a role that Jeff Gere played at the last Storyteller's Cafe. What a delightful evening full...

This year, Coyote Tales will feature a workshop prior to the Story Slam. I have eighteen parents signed up in what is being called a "Mas...

The National Storytelling Network Summit, which was held in Fremont this year, was a wonderful way to pass the weekend. I headed down ear...

They were all true stories, but there was definitely magic, which would have made the name Fairytale Winery more appropriate for the venu...

We weren't in the regular performance space, but we were provided a pretty large storage room. In spite of that, the audience packed them...

Writing a book, even a small one, is such a humbling but exhilarating process. For me, it is always easier and much more fun to be workin...

This past Saturday I had the pleasure of sharing a stage with Barbara Clark, who was nominated as this year's Regional Gem of California....