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Journey to Hopiland – FIRST SORROW

Posted on September 22, 2012 6 Comments

In July the family moved from Minneapolis to Duluth. The new house had two stories and an attic where Denise and her sisters slept. The house was attached to other houses that looked the same. Denise settled into her new home and wondered where she would go to school. She hoped it wouldn’t be the […]

Journey to Hopiland – Alone in Kindergarten

Posted on September 8, 2012 2 Comments

This is the first story in the series I began two weeks ago with the poetic story of my birth. This is a story I have told to children in schools. Your children may enjoy this story too. The fun days of summer were coming to an end but Denise was not sad. Sure, she […]

The Story of My Birth – The Ballad of Mama Queen

Posted on August 25, 2012 3 Comments

Beginning a new career path as a school nurse at a small elementary school in the heart of the Hopi Nation causes me to reflect on this journey that has led me here. My childhood dreams have changed through time. I began reflecting on my life when I was in fourth grade with my first […]

The Couple Who Returned from the Land of the Dead

Posted on August 18, 2012 Leave a Comment

Today, an oral story. This African folktale speaks of love, death, and resurrection. Click onto link below. Enjoy. http://storytellingtheater.com/storytellingtheater.com/PERFORMANCE/Entries/2011/6/13_The_couple_who_returned_from_the_land_of_the_dead.html

A Spider Story for Gardeners

Posted on August 11, 2012 7 Comments

When I was eight years old my sisters and I spent a semester living with Mother, our paternal grandmother. She was a large, round woman who ruled with an iron hand. Her large wooden house had a wide, screened back porch that ran the full length of the house. A well was on the back […]

WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION – THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE BOMBING OF HIROSHIMA

Posted on August 4, 2012 Leave a Comment

During the Cuban Missile Crises, I was in fifth grade and lived on Tyndall Air Force Base in Panama City, Florida. I remember we had to walk to school because the base was using our school buses to transport troops in case the President decided to take military action against the Russians. Anti-communism was at […]

STORY OF A HEALING DREAM

Posted on January 4, 2012 Leave a Comment

I had not intended to write today, but I have a story to share. Tuesday morning, I ended my 12 hour night shift of nursing with a feeling of malaise. For hours I had a headache that was not strong enough for pills, a tiredness I could not explain, and a deep feeling of emptiness, […]