Welcome to the StoryTeller pages

I have long been fascinated by the power of stories to evoke change in the world. My intent here is to borrow (and sometimes write) stories that hopefully will provide me with a means of expressing some of my more difficult ideas and thoughts.

I mostly have stories others have written, mostly from my family. I think we can learn quite a lot from reading stories others have written, and examine how they make us feel, think and act.

If you have stories you’d like to contribute here, use the contact form below to get in touch with me and I will include them here. I do reserve editorial rights to this site, so I may not include your stories if they are profane or abusive, but I’m very open-minded about such things, especially if you’re willing to work with me.

“I have become acutely aware, through teaching, of the power of the individual narrative of having gone out to a place that is very different from here and lived with people who are different from my students. If I tell stories in the course of teaching an anthropology class, students will include on their evaluations that they wished I had told more stories from my personal experience. I have come to realize to what myth this is playing and have come to question the practice. It is a good way to get students attention, but do they get the points I am trying to make or does it come across as just another frontier story?”  – Vance Geiger