I really never saw myself as a person that would play Dungeons and Dragons (D&D), but when my husband and I returned from living in Germany we began to play. We love it because it reminds us of Germany. First, D&D is a fantasy realm table top role-playing game. This is where a person can embo...

Simply put, in the Chinese culture, it’s okay to say, “I’m sorry,” but it is never okay to say, “No.” If you say “No,” either in English or a Chinese dialect, you will be perceived as a brute. The Chinese say “No” in many other ways. This is a culture that does not want to embarrass someone or ...

Are you really ready? When you look in the mirror are you capable of accepting the reflections of your own truths? Have you ever had a boss that was jealous of you and did what they could to thwart you? Has anyone had a stepmother whose jealousy drove her to rip your image out of pictures and...

I remember my Grandmother, Nora Fogarty Wunsch, sitting me in the rocking chair next to hers on the front porch of the lumbering house my ancestors built in New Jersey. She would tell me stories about how the Irish side of the family came across the Big Ocean in the 1800’s. They settled in New ...

When I told my father that I would love to study art, he replied that no daughter of his was going to be a damn artist as artists were drunks and whores, and lived penniless. So I lived the life the world thought I should live. I got married at 21, soon became pregnant, put my husband through c...

Early Thursday morning. On my way to the White Tank County Cemetery. A place practically devoid of headstones, mostly graced with little copper markers. Markers making those who were invisible a little less invisible. Markers that guarantee the holders of each of these individual’s stories will...

I started to read Irish Poems to learn some special stories. One after another and nothing rang a bell until I read “A DREAM” Beauty! Truth! I knew I’d like to share this poem: A DREAM By William Allingham. Born in the moonlight of the lane, Quench’d in the heavy shadow again. Schoolmates, marc...

In the spring of 2015 I had the pleasure of joining Semester Abroad Ireland sponsored by Mesa community college. For the month of June, the participants each took two classes one being Irish storytelling and the second being the Ancient History of Ireland. We had storytelling classes every da...

Kids make me nervous and I am a little terrified of them. They are brutally honest, loud, fragile and as far as I can recall I have never been a fan of kids. When I was in grade school I knew kids were rambunctious and dirty, because I was one of them. I was the kid in third grade that always t...

What if I gave you the option that from this point forward you could only write or talk but not both. What would be your choice of communication? Some of us are talkers and some of us are writers. Can we effectively do both with the exact same data? Perhaps, if you are a writer you may feel tha...

I was not sure what to expect when I signed up for The Irish Storytelling Tradition class. Honestly, I viewed it as an opportunity to take the class without having to leave my home to take that pesky travel to Ireland. And a few more credits toward a Storytelling Certificate. What a surprise! I...

As someone who has only recently “arrived” as a storyteller, I have many friends and acquaintances who are confused or wondering at how and why I do it - tell stories, that is. It is not always easy to explain. The why is the simplest. I do it because I love it. I love picking a story, learning...