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About hdh
I have been telling stories for over 40 years and writing forever. I am a retired teacher and storyteller. I hope to expand upon my repertoire and use this blog as a place to do writing. The main purpose is to give me and others that choose to comment, a space in which to play with issues that deal with storytelling, storytelling ideas, storytelling in education, reactions to events, and just plain fun stories. I explore some of my own writing throughout, from character analysis, to fictional, to poetry, and personal stories. I go wherever my muse sends me. Enjoy!the guitar
When I was 13 years old I got a guitar as a birthday present. I was always somewhat musically inclined. I had taught myself how to play the harmonica when I was 7 years old. My parents had me take … Continue reading →
Finding my brother – Part 5
Part 5 In the early 1970’s when I was teaching 6th grade, I was invited to one of my student’s house for dinner with her family. This was a very close knit family. They had a big house, with a … Continue reading →
snow thoughts
Snow Thoughts at all I enjoy the solitude of snow. To look out on a snow covered ground. Peaceful, Silent, Reflective Quietly shoveling the mounds of white Thoughts gathered in my mind A time to reflect on things past or … Continue reading →
Finding my brother – Part 4
Part 4 We had made contact with each other. The stage was now set. Between July 18th when I first responded to Cathy’s message on Facebook and about August 12 there were few e-mails back and forth. Cathy and Franz … Continue reading →
Finding My Brother – Part 3.
My story of finding my brother continues through marriage, divorce, serious illness and a second marriage that will bring to him a connection to the father he never knew. When Franz was 19 years old he met Monique at a … Continue reading →
Finding my brother – Part 2
Having written the story of Finding my Brother from my side of the ocean, I thought it time to try and write the story of Franz from his side. Understand that most of this information has come from his wife … Continue reading →
Finding my brother – Part 1
I’m not quite sure when I first heard about my brother, it was either in late high school or college. My sisters had informed me that they thought my father had a child when he was in France named Franz. … Continue reading →
Black Memories
My parents died many years ago. My father in 1982 at the age of 78 and my mother in 1998 at the age of 84. Both deaths were relatively quick; my father in a nursing home and my mother at … Continue reading →
Thoughts of growing old
When I was young I couldn’t wait to get older and do all the things that adults do. Then I got older and reality set in. I had to become responsible (not that I wasn’t responsible before); I had to … Continue reading →
The Keeper of the Lists
I had started keeping the names and classes students were in back in the late 1990’s when I was the teacher of the gifted and talented in our district. I found it useful when doing record keeping for testing in … Continue reading →
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