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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 refrigerator was locked.
It may be hard to believe, but when I was young, my mother used to lock our refrigerator. It was an old fashioned refrigerator, with one door and handle to open it. Inside there was a freezer part on the … Continue reading →
Keep your eye on that kid!
When I was young my mother used to always take me food shopping. My parents didn’t drive, so we always walked. One place we always shopped was the butcher shop. It was about two and a half blocks from our … Continue reading →
Can you remember a time you tried to cook something and it didn’t turn out?
I love to bake. One of the things that I used to bake a lot was bread. This was before I purchased a mixer with a dough hook and before I purchased a bread machine. No, I loved physically doing … Continue reading →
Personal Stories – Using Story Prompts
Finding ideas to write about in your own personal past is sometimes difficult to do. I’ve listened to a number of tellers, who tell stories about their childhood and their families and events that happened in their lives. I’ve often … Continue reading →
Elements of Story
One of the writing/storytelling activities that I did as a teacher was entitled, “Elements of Story”. The premise of the lesson involved a discussion with the class of elements necessary to make good fictional stories. The elements that we developed … Continue reading →
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Characters – Joseph
Joseph is the consummate analyst. He has spent years studying to be a psychologist with the hopes of getting a job to help fix all of the wrongs in peoples’ lives. For Joseph there is no down time. Any interaction … Continue reading →
What to do?
Growing up in the 50s, unlike today, meant that there weren’t many organized activities to choose from when we had time on our hands. I lived in an apartment building in the Bronx. Adjacent to it was a small park … Continue reading →
A Place to Rest My Head
My family lived in 2-bedroom apartment in the Bronx. Two bedrooms should have been an issue in that there were five of us in the family. My two older sisters got to have the master-bedroom. I guess my parents felt … Continue reading →
The Power of Telling
I began my storytelling career in 1981.The Shoreham-Wading River Middle School cast me as Hans Christian Anderson in the musical play by the same name. Up until that point in my life (all 30 years of it) I had never … Continue reading →
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Where’s the Fire? Original version
When I was five years old, my father took me on a venture to the local branch of the Chemical Bank. While he was inside waiting in line to deposit money, I was allowed to free-roam the bank. Free roaming … Continue reading →
