I am fortunate to be ‘home-full’ - I have many homes around the world I am welcome. And I have lived in quite a few places…
As such concepts of ‘home’ are sometimes a bit abstract for me…Home can be where I am, where my family and friends are, where someone or something I love is. [...]

Happy New Year - and thank you to all of you for being such great readers and friends!
Last year was certainly a year of Story! As such, these days I get a lot of emails and things about story and storytelling from friends (thanks one and all - keep them coming please).
And I thought [...]

Once upon a time…
McLuhan’s ghost is at work again.

There is an oddly disturbing yet fascinating emergence in storyland "The Proppian Fairy Tale Generator" - based on the work of Russian structuralist Vladimir Propp…(thanks Paul and others)
His idea, and the idea behind the generator is that all fairytales have basic elements - so this generator [...]

I am sitting in an airport connected to free (but-who-knows-what-data-they-are-collecting) wireless and I am speaking to you - whereever you may be? whatever you may be be-ing? 
And I am thinking about this year and my world. I’ve had the opportunity to live in 5 countries. Meet wonderful people. And travel to a few more. [...]

I repeat:
You are not your resume!
Please repeat, out loud if necessary, like a mantra.
If you are not up for the whole spiel, You Can Find 7 Steps to Less Stressful Resume.doc Writing under Actions, below. Other people have written much nicer better things on how to be creative and not average. [...]

Verba Volant /
Scripta Manent
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Spoken words fly away /
but writing remains 
via The Treehouse  - Naomi Wolf 
“…This is one of the … words. Its roots sink deep and stretch out far…There is a great moving force therein.
A great moving force and yet again, only a lost sound.
It is a lost sound, when somewhere - in that [...]

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Image: Perseverance (c) Harry Araten 
Backstory / Story with image 
Please note: not all this backstory relates to image/notion above - you may prefer to scroll down to ‘related stories‘ section… 
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"When is the best time to plant a tree?
20 years ago…
When is the best time to plant one?
Now…"
Or if you prefer, [...]

It has been said that you can never cross the same river twice.
And that is true…and yet…It’s also been said that "All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players…"

In Israel they have a phrase "eze seret?" "what movie [is this]?" to describe when things happen in your life [...]

I have been thinking about this poem a lot the last few weeks: 
“As I dig for wild orchidsIn the autumn fields.It is the deeply bedded rootthat I desire,Not the flower.”- Izumi Shikibu, Japan (974-1034)

It is summer on this side of the world.
I am in the process of a ’start’ - I have started to [...]

I was suddenly reminded of a conversation I had with a friend a few years ago. He rang me up and asked me for a coffee because he wanted my advice.
As soon as we sat down he began to talk about how he had been offered a very high profile job which in his own [...]