Category Archives: Storytelling

Remember that song

Posted on October 17, 2007 by hdh

If I asked you to tell me one song that you remember singing in school when you were young, what would you answer? For me it is the “Remember Your Name And Address” song that I learned when I was … Continue reading →

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Fire update

Posted on September 9, 2007 by hdh

As I continue to work on editing and revising my Fire Alarm Story for telling, I am thankful to all of my friends and colleagues for all of the suggestions that they have given me. Here is the latest update: … Continue reading →

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Evolution of Story

Posted on June 25, 2007 by hdh

As I build upon the repertoire of stories that I tell, I constantly step back to watch how they evolve. The first part of telling a story is finding the one that you want to tell. In some instances it’s … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Fire? A telling version.

Posted on May 4, 2007 by hdh

A few months ago, I wrote an entry about when I was 5 years old and pulled a fire alarm (see Where’s the Fire?) I have since decided that I want to tell this as personal story. That brings out … Continue reading →

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Writing Songs

Posted on April 11, 2007 by hdh

I’ve always been impressed how singer/storytellers like Bill Harley, Michael Parent, and others create the songs that they write and perform. In the past year, I’ve written two songs, both of which I would like to use in my storytelling … Continue reading →

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What will you remember 20 years from now?

Posted on February 16, 2007 by hdh

One of the scenarios that I put interviewing teacher candidates in when I was on interviewing committees was, “Pretend that we hired you, and you’ve now been teaching here for 20 years. You run into one of your ex-students from … Continue reading →

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Can you remember a time you tried to cook something and it didn’t turn out?

Posted on January 23, 2007 by hdh

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 →

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Personal Stories – Using Story Prompts

Posted on January 23, 2007 by hdh

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 →

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Elements of Story

Posted on January 17, 2007 by hdh

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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The Power of Telling

Posted on January 11, 2007 by hdh

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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