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Welcome to Fox Tales!!!
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I was initiated into the storyteller's art at a very early age through telling stories to neighborhood kids. Several of my buddies and I would climb Old Man Johnson's mulberry tree and eat berries until our tongues were purple. While eating, we took turns telling tales both tall and true. My early training took place in the forests and cornfields of Ohio while coon hunting with uncles and cousins. As the men sat around the fire listening in the quiet dark for the bawl of trailing hounds, they told of family deeds, fools and heroes, adventures and tragedies. Here my love of a story well told was born.
I graduated from college with several unofficial minors: biology, comparative religion, literature, political science, agriculture, and psychology. I majored in education with an emphasis on storytelling in the classroom. I quickly saw storytelling as the perfect template for tying the curriculum together. If the truth be known, I love learning. In addition to my academic training, I've studied dance, mime, acting, and voice to enliven the art. I love literature and revel in the history and mythology of the human race. Wherever I travel, I spend time exploring the local cultures, history, and ecology. I also enjoy passing long hours learning about the environment directly from the plants and animals who share my home.
In my professional career, I've always worked with children. I have been a teacher, counselor, and mentor to children of many ages, races, and backgrounds. I've taught in day care centers, summer camps, outdoor education centers, and public and parochial schools. I taught third and fourth grades at an inner city Catholic school and seventh grade language arts and social studies at a suburban public school. My principal once said, "In all of my career in education, I have never seen anyone get students so excited about writing, and give them the skills they need to become better writers."
