More Evidence On the Power of StoriesA recent article in the New York Times, “The Neuroscience of Your Brain on Fiction” cited current research on what happens when we read (or…
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The fear at the bottom of the holeIt has been argued that there is, fundamentally, only one fear: the fear of death. This hypothesis says that if you trace any fear to…
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On Stories, Narrative and StorytellingThis again is from Bruce Jackson’s wonderful The Story is True: The Art and Meaning of Telling Stories, and speaks to our human urge to…
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Stories with Eleanor, Part 2Last week I had coffee with my friend, Eleanor Stanton, the associate pastor at the Presbyterian-New England Congregational Church in Saratoga Springs. We talked…
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Talking Stories with Eleanor, Part 1Last week I had coffee with my friend, Eleanor Stanton, the associate pastor at the Presbyterian- New England Congregational Church in Saratoga Springs. She talked…
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This Is Your Brain on StoriesI’ve offered a lot of traditional stories on Lion’s Whiskers over the last several months. How many of you are telling them to your kids?…
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About Stories“We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that’s the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate as personalities are…
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Courage Book Review – Take Courage from the Story“Take courage from the story” is a Dakota proverb, written phonetically as Nee yeh chee yi yo. This was shared with me by my good…
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Courage Book Review – The WandererLast week I reviewed two illustrated versions of the Iliad. Today, we take up the tale with adaptations for kids of the Odyssey. Although with…
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Meat of the TongueOkay, by now some readers may be ready to give up on me and my fairy tales and legends. “Too late,” they’ll say. “Didn’t do…
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