About Me

To the immediate right of our front door were three quick steps to the first landing. A right turn took you up the next eight steps and delivered you to my stage, THE SECOND LANDING. A curtained window to the left, looking on to the neighbor's roof was my backdrop. Another right turn and you had your choice of the five tiered theater seating, room enough for five siblings . Mom and Dad, popcorn and programs for those that got there early. The landing was not much more than 3'x 3' but big enough for my performances of poems, monologues and stories.

So my performance career began, on the second landing, in front of the curtain, not behind, to an attentive, loving, sometimes squirming audience.

One of my first performance pieces was A Little Boys Pocket, a story in prose about the woes of having a pocket with holes. Later, tales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen were a regular fare along with original works. I still have the books of poems, fairy tales, and folk tales that I learned and performed from.

Now my stories number in the hundreds and my audiences have grown to include many, many wonderful families. The Stage? It may be a classroom, a camp site or community center, hospital or church, home or a theater. Stories fit anywhere, on any landing you happen to be on now.

I earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Children's Creative Play from Dominican College, Racine WI. (How fun is that?)

I believe in play. Play is free. Play is creative. Play is complete unto itself. Play is the question and the answer. There is no right or wrong way to play. Through play we learn our place in the world. We try on roles and feelings without fear of failure. So it is with storytelling. Free, creative, the question and the answer, just tell.

Try it on. How does it feel? Where do I fit?

Everyone has a story.

These are some of the places you may have seen me telling stories.

Adriennen Arsht Center Miami

Ann Norton Sculpture Gardens West Palm Beach

Amelia Island Book Fair Amelia Island

Boca Prep International Boca Raton

Cambridge Schools Pembroke Pines, Weston, Wellington, Coral Springs

Children's Museum of Boynton Beach Boynton Beach

Daggerwing Nature Center Boca Raton

Florence Fuller Child Development Center Boca Raton

Florida Atlantic University Workshop-Storytelling to Young Children, Boca Raton