I have been working towards a doctorate about storytelling and this blog is part of my thesis. Storytellers and artists both entertain and to help us survive by making sense of our lives and world. All stories follow similar patterns of a quest, a passion, and a mistake, followed by a resolution or acceptance of fate, as JD Salinger explained. […]
We need new names and new roles
Do we marry a person or marry a wife or husband? We were a new family, my mother, stepfather, two step-sisters, my sister and me. I was 16 years old when my mother and stepfather had a bitter argument – a natural part of adapting to a new relationship. My mother in utter misery, took to her bed weeping and […]