Cultivating the Cast
Somewhere along the road during my second annual bicycle storytelling tour in July, while trying to fruitfully occupy my brain without distracting myself from simultaneously scanning for roadside perils ahead and keeping my feet spinning, I came to a new conception of the show I was carrying with me and debuting from place to place.…
Resuscitating Sam McGee
Each February, the big community event where I live is Winter Fest, which takes place on the grounds of an old inn on the other side of town. There’s sledding, snowshoeing, cold water plunging, snow sculpture and other indoor and outdoor activities for all ages, followed by a sumptuous feast and a contra dance in…
The “Shaggy Dog”: Definitions, a Confession, and an Epiphany
This year I debuted my workshop “The Care and Feeding of your Shaggy Dog.” What follows is a revised and abbreviated version of the workshop’s “history and theory” lecture. It turns out that there’s a significant sector of the general public that doesn’t know what we’re talking about when we refer to a “shaggy dog…
Putting thoughts on paper in Nueva Esperanza, Nentón, Huehuetenango, Guatemala, in January, 2014.
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