Why did Persephone eat that pomegranate seed? As seasons shift and the Spring Equinox approaches, science gives us an explanation. The earth rotates on its axis, and the side that faces the sun has

"Stop making up stories!" I overhear an exasperated mom talking to her 4-year-old. In this context, the word "story" has become synonymous with lying, making up fiction, not telling the truth. H

Storytellers in my tradition look for stories that hold some sort of "magic." We tell stories that we love--sometimes for reasons that we know and sometimes we just keep telling them until we figure o

There are some stories that you do not really know until you've heard it directly from the people that have lived it. Growing up, I knew my parents story of immigration from bits and pieces of over

"Show me the manner in which a Nation or community cares for its dead and I will measure with mathematical exactness the tender mercies of its people, their respect for the laws of the land, and their

"Don't go into the graveyard after dark!" Perhaps like my friend, Janis McCall, you grew up with this warning. But really... is there anything to fear in graveyards? "Personally I have no bone t

Unsure of how to proceed, the young soldier prayed silently while he continued to pace. As if summoned by some invisible force, he homed in on one of the flag-swathed caskets. "I know this man," he th

This spooky Halloween season, I got a chance to perform at Leu Gardens in Orlando, Florida, with the cast of "Haunting Tales," formerly called "Ghosts in the Garden." Last Friday, the morning was beau

Don't think of a purple elephant! What do you do? ... You think of a purple elephant. Let's use the science of the mind in our favor. What you focus on is what persists. Let's practice shifting our focus onto space.

What if you could hit the pause button? If your inner storyteller is moving down from one worst case scenario to the next, the stress and tension are building up. The body does not distinguish between real stress and imagined stress,