Storytelling

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I have told stories all my life - not professionally, just a thing I do.  I am blessed to have experienced much, to meet and learn of life from many amazing people.  And I love to pass on what I have learned along the way. 

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People often tell me they enjoy my tales.  They are always told, as the tradition holds, in private homes, among gatherings of neighbors, family, friends. All are true, which is important to me, 'tho a few I call 'true enough'.  These last are tales of real people about whom I've added context which I construct from what they've said or done.  Links to two of these tales are here.

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I am of Irish immigrant grandparents to St. Louis, a very Catholic place, founded as a trading center by the French, then owned by Spain, once again by France, then sold to the US - all before they came, thru whom I have dual-national status.  My Irish roots are my grounding and my  strength. 

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Storytelling is an ancient tradition in Ireland, which still exists. I have been blessed to know two of these, a story of one is linked here - Jimmy McNelis.