Tag: storytelling

• March 24, 2011

  Big Ear

  It’s like this: people tell me things. Deep dark secrets. Childhood tales of woe. Things they haven’t told anyone else – until now. Or just, you know, the garden variety overshare. Yes, I am one of those people to whom people tell their troubles and secrets, great and small. My Mom jokes that I look […]
• August 19, 2010

  What Mom Said

  Today is my Mom’s 73rd birthday. As you may be able to tell from the photo, my Mom has a rather large personality. Though she measures a scant (albeit feisty) 5 foot 1 3/4 inches (she insists on the 1 3/4), she has a room-filling presence, quick wit and gift for storytelling that has made […]