Articles of Interest and Enjoyment

Here are some archived articles written by our members, from past issues of In the Wind.

Your Life Matters! Four Vital Reasons to Tell Your Life Story

by Kim Pearson

Are your children or grandchildren pestering you to "write those stories down?" Perhaps you feel that you don't have time to remember your life -- you're still too busy living it! It is daunting to write down 40, 60, 80 years of living. It is often an overwhelming task just to remember it. Click here to read entire article

The Fishwife

by Jill Johnson

You see, we're part of the "club ." Every time we begin the task of creating a new story or step up to the podium to tell, we are taking a risk. Click here to read entire article

The Mole's Spectacles -- a Round Robin Story Game

by Kim Pearson

Once long ago, or maybe only yesterday, there was a Mole. He lived beneath the earth, where it is dark. The Mole people can smell the earth, they can touch the earth, taste the earth, hear the earth. But they cannot see the earth. One day the Mole grew tired of being blind, so he went to the eye doctor.  Click here to read entire article

Twenty-Five Years of the Seattle Storyteller's Guild (Part I)

by Virginia Rankin

Clare Cuddy arrived in Seattle in 1979 with a vision and a mission; she wanted to start a storytelling group, and to promote storytelling as an art form for adults. She put up flyers everywhere in schools, coffee houses, museums, libraries. Never averse to dipping into her own pocket, she placed an ad in a weekly paper looking for people interested in storytelling. Click here to read entire article

From the Storyteller's Mouth

by Jill Johnson and Kim Pearson

The first time I told a story, I tell you, I was scared out of my head -- my knees were like jelly, my mouth full of cotton. This despite the fact that I had majored in theatre in college, and was used to performing. Click here to read entire article

"The universe is made up of stories, not atoms."
Muriel Rukeyser