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A Review That Melts My Heart

  • May 10, 2013
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Mary Hays and I travelled to Saskatoon on March 21 to take part in a weekend of World Storytelling Day Celebrations.  What a warm welcome we recieved there even though roads were closed and there was snow piled up to the roof tops in some places.  Storytellers are a resilient lot and all events went…

Food and Stories

How I love to cook, to share good food and feast my eyes on something carefully handmade; made with love. Today I was visiting with my cousin Dorothy, my friends Bernice and Donna, a whole gang of volunteers and Historic Site Staff at the Creamery and Fensala Hall in Markerville AB. The sun shone gloriously…

Karen telling Hallmund

Travels With Grettir

  • November 24, 2012
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Hail to the Speaker.  Hail to the one who listens!  May the one who hears these words prosper because of them!  Hail to the one who listens! Grettir Snake…    How did I get hooked up with you? Sometimes you were a brute, a brazen crazy man, a marauder, a bandit, an outlaw, cast out…

Grettir’s Saga: A Sorcery Sampler

  • August 23, 2012
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Mary Hays and I had a great rehearsal today to prepare for our performance at The Edmonton Storytelling Festival and in turn for the ProArts at Noon Series on March 13, 2013.  This will be a performance in celebration of World Storytelling Days. Preparing stories for performance is wrought with some joy and some difficulty.  There is the company and…

Post Saga Musings

  • May 7, 2012
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Hail to the Speaker!  Hail to the one who listens!  May the one who hears these words prosper because of them.  Hail to the one who listens! It is Monday and here we are again emerged from a day long/ weekend long performance of Grettir’s Saga.  We journeyed through time and space far far away…

Viking waters embroidery

The Saga Of Grettir The Strong

  • November 22, 2011
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Strength and Power are what we seek to possess are they not?  Without these, we often feel that we lack the resources necessary to face the world.  But they can also be a weakness.  Grettir Asmundarsson, descendant of a Norwegian King is a brute of a young man and like many of his age; lazy…

World Storytelling Day 2012

  • November 9, 2011
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On March 21, 2012 (and in the days that come before and after) all around the world, storytellers will be celebrating Trees.  There will be treetop tightropes stringing far flung peoples together from all around the globe. Whether we remember Ask and Embla the first humans made from Ash and Elm trees, if we think…

Tales from the bazaar

TALES From The Bazaar

  • November 7, 2011
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Tales from the Middle East have always fascinated me.  Now, after visiting Turkey in 2010, I am enamored even more with the people who dwell along the Silk Road and beyond. We found hospitality there that was genuine and exuberant.  When our daughter Julia spoke in Turkish to our hosts they loved us even more….

Dancing Spirits of Story

  • November 1, 2011
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This Thursday November 3- we will be dancing in the main lobby of the Castell Library – the main branch downtown across from city hall on 7th Avenue 5 – 6 pm.  Dance provides another means of telling a story.  It has been feared and cherished over time.  Banished by the authorities in many places,…

Talking and Tales

  • October 3, 2011
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My son Stephen would say as a four year old, “ Mommy, you know what is my favourite thing to do? I love to talk.” Not intending to dominate a conversation, he meant he loved to exchange ideas with folks of all kinds. Now a 21 year old, he listens as much or more than…