Remorse, fear, ignorance, second thoughts, abortion, fear…pain, drowning, heavy breathing, crying, fear…white door, doctors, motherhood, holding hands, judgement, fear… “- Clara? Clara?! – Yes… – I said we are ready for you now.” Her mother quickly stood up and still holding Clara’s hand headed towards the door. “-I am sorry ma’am...
Day 236 – Busy little bee
I feel the need to be creative and since I’ve been having some great couple of days I decided to give myself a treat and create a new story. It seems that every day I meet new people, even if they don’t speak to me, even if they just glance at me once, or keep their eyes blocked into their smartphones. They are all interesting people, with stories worth telling, with baggage no one...
Day 150 – Children and stories
I’ve always loved working with children, seeing their curious little eyes looking into mine, watching them trying to imitate my moves,or involuntarily opening their mouths whenever I read them a story. A few days ago I had to play my charms on nine children, all of them being around four years old. I didn’t even feel that half an hour pass and as soon as the story and little game that...
Day 136 – Storytelling workshop (details)
As I was saying here, the last couple of months I have worked hard to develop and organize a storytelling workshop for children this year. This last few weeks the responses have been amazing and I am so happy to see that the art of storytelling is still need it and welcomed. These last couple of days I have developed a new flier that includes more details of the workshop and registration is...
Day 120 – Mondays and little people
New week, new Monday, new meeting at Writers Group,this time the first one at St. Marks Church after our long summer vacation. It seems that today our amazing crowd will be a little bigger than usual and it’s always exciting to meet new people and reunite with old ones. Monday has become, in almost a year, my favorite day of the week and it’s all because of those meetings and the...
Day 115 – Storytelling Workshop
The last couple of weeks I have been working hard to create, organize and develop an English storytelling workshop and finally I can share with all of you the presentation of it. The workshop is designed for children and it’s an invitation for them to have an hour of fun while using their vivid imagination. As I say on the flyer, everything has its own story, from a puppet or a train, to a...