Drive Like A Storyteller!

As an on the road performer, sometimes I travel up to six hours in the car to tell my stories. On these journeys (and even on the short ones!) I keep reminding myself to Drive Like A Storyteller. Drive like you have all the time in the world! Drive like you are the millionaire and heiress of all time! Drive as though 'Once Upon A Time' and the mythic 'In the Beginning Time' were unfolding all around you.

Joseph Campbell said that myths and stories are happening all around us! Look! Orpheus is playing music on the street corner, Ahab is walking down the line of stopped cars begging for money! See what is bubbling up in the world outside and inside of the imagination. Riches await!

Time is NOT Money it is POSSIBILITY!

Wishing you good travels and the kind of time we knew from long ago!

A Book Celebration Party at Outspoken Word

OK ok... I held TWO book celebration parties, not one! But hey it was a seven year project so who's counting anymore! The celebration at Club Passim in Cambridge, MA was sold out - with a crowd that seemed as happy as I was to have the book on hand. Kurdish musician Andrew Aytac sang- and I told stories from the book and anecdotes of my travels. My versatile musician husband played Middle Eastern drums. The second event (pictured here) was in Framingham where I was happy to see some of my collaborators on the book and old friends I hadn't seen in years. A photo of me dressed up in my "Kurdish- Las Vegas" outfit for the grand finale is attached. I was surprised I could even read the last story the sequins were so busy creating a disco ball effect.