It's Tell A Story Day

According to Sandra Boyton, who has been keeping up with this sort of thing, it is tell a story day.

Of course there are a myriad of ways to look at that one phrase.

Do you read a story to someone else that is much beloved to you?

Do you write a new story for people’s amusement?

Do you just listen to other people’s stories?

Do you tell a story about something that happened in your life? Your family’s life? Your ancestors lives?

There are all kinds of ways to look at this.

Personally I am holing up in my hotel room working on my novel for the day while Peter gets some time with his girls. So I will be telling a story that won’t be seen for a little less than a year.

It is also new comic book day so there are lots of stories to be had there.

Our stories about ourselves are our history or how we see our history.

I have a number I could tell today. There are the classics like Guava Paste is People but both Peter and Harlan told that one so much better. There are the Caroline stories, which we tell her of her youth. We have been telling her what she was like as a baby. There are my theater stories, convention stories, travel stories, and family stories. I have a lot of them and have written many of them down over the years in the web log. There are painful stories and happy stories and some that don’t have an ending yet.

So ask me a question and I’ll tell you a story based on that question. Might not be long but it will be a story. It can be fictional or non-fictional. Something about my past or my future. Puppet or not. I will put a caveat that there are some stories I am not going to tell for a variety of reasons so please understand this.

I am grateful for all the stories I do have to tell.