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Never Fool Me, Once is Enough

Posted on March 31, 2022 by hdh

Never Fool Me, Once is Enough  Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. I wondered where and when that quote came from? I’ve read: The earliest recording of this proverb in print is from a … Continue reading →

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A Wandering Mind

Posted on June 4, 2020 by hdh

A Wandering Mind While the world sleeps, the mind wanders. It takes me to places that cannot be reached in the wakeful hours of the day.  There was a time when the world was quiet. There were no sounds of … Continue reading →

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A Leap of Faith

Posted on February 8, 2020 by hdh

A Leap of Faith It was back in the ‘80s. I had been teaching for 7 years and was asked by the Middle School that I had worked in to act in their musical play, “Hans Christian Andersen”. They wanted … Continue reading →

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Stories Spark…

Posted on December 16, 2019 by hdh

Stories Spark I feel saddened by the fact that kids growing up nowadays are missing out on all the wonderful stories that I grew up on. The fairytales, folktales, even some of the books we read are no longer shared … Continue reading →

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The Call of Music

Posted on August 11, 2019 by hdh

The Call of the Music I am a folk music and storytelling junkie. I love listening to old folk songs and spend most of my driving nowadays listening to stories. I wasn’t always that way. I always liked music and … Continue reading →

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To be brave…

Posted on July 18, 2019 by hdh

To Be Brave “There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.” L. Frank Baum I’m a storyteller and musician. Don’t let anyone fool you … Continue reading →

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In the beginning…

Posted on June 13, 2019 by hdh

In the beginning… I had never acted before in a play. I do remember one time, when I was a teenager, I joined some community theater program and was cast as a bit player for the play, “Rebel without a … Continue reading →

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A New Kind of Audience

Posted on January 26, 2016 by hdh

I’ve written in the past about audiences and who educates them how to respond to performers and performances (see http://www.hdhstory.net/Storyblog/?p=64). In that piece of writing I referred to different kinds of performances and audiences and their attentiveness and interactions to performers. … Continue reading →

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in the beginning…

Posted on July 14, 2010 by hdh

I started teaching in 1973. For my birthday in 1974 a friend of mine gave me a guitar. I knew some basic chords that I had learned when I was a teenager and this new guitar inspired me to sing … Continue reading →

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To tell or not to tell? – that is the question

Posted on April 22, 2010 by hdh

Now comes the dilemma. Both classes loved the story. It was too abstract for them. Is it worth the telling of a story that is above the level of most kids understanding? Continue reading →

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