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Another Side to the Story
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Monday, February 16, 2015. Here are my sentences for The Great American Sentence Contest. But the contest allows only five entries. Which ones would you choose? My father was a storyteller, so it was easy to tell his stories, but my mother was not, and while it’s easy to tell a story, it’s hard to tell a hug. (from It's Hard to Tell a Hug. We were down there, all the boys, expecting our parents to show up before long, and we were neatening things up, sh...
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Another Side to the Story: The Prize Inside
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Saturday, June 14, 2014. My lawnmower broke. My wife had set out to mow the lawn but quickly reported the lawnmower broken, again, and we needed a new one. Having maintained that mower for years, I wasn’t about to give up on it. Not that it was anything special, it was a no-name gas-powered mower, red on the bottom, black engine on top. Instead, I decided to look for one in the basement. There, among the dirty old screws, washers, and nuts, a small, pla...
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Another Side to the Story: March 2014
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Tuesday, March 11, 2014. Everyone called her Queenie, because she was such a “drama queen! 8221; And she liked the nickname because it brought her immediate attention. When Facebook became available, she’d found her medium, keeping her pages up-to-date all through college and after graduation, into her new job. She strove to be the most popular and best connected; the supreme social networker. Because it would tell her if she was the fairest of them all.
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Another Side to the Story: You know you're a storyteller if ...
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Friday, August 1, 2014. You know you're a storyteller if . Fifteen ways to know if you're a storyteller:. You can retell a 30-second joke as a 20-minute story. When someone tells you a story, you tell them a story. When someone asks you a question, you tell them a story. Your children complain, "We've heard that story a hundred times! You can differentiate between epic, fable, fairytale, folk tale, legend, memoir, myth, parable, saga, tall tale, and yarn.
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Another Side to the Story: October 2013
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Sunday, October 13, 2013. I began my story …. 8230; and then I stopped. I asked the group, “What would you do, and why? The approach is based on the Critical Incident Technique. I first used this approach at the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) conference in 2000 in a session entitled, “Critical incidents: How do our values and principles guide us? And The Unaccustomed Participant. 51, 4, 327-358. Links to this post. An example of his ins...
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Another Side to the Story: It’s Hard to Tell a Hug
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Friday, May 8, 2015. It’s Hard to Tell a Hug. I didn’t have any stories about my mother! My father was a storyteller, so it was easy to tell his stories, but my mother was not. And while it’s easy to tell a story, it’s hard to tell a hug. 8221; I used to get a headache going shopping—what am I saying, I still. Get headaches going shopping—so I said, “I’ll stay home.”. I was 29 the beginning of that summer when my wife and I were going to get married....
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Another Side to the Story: Sister Lillian Harrington's Midrash
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Saturday, April 5, 2014. Sister Lillian Harrington's Midrash. In the long, long ago, the Lord God searched for people to be his own. God went to the Greeks and asked, "What can you do for me if I make you my chosen people? We are gifted architects. We can build beautiful temples where people can come in great numbers from all over the world to worship you.". Thank you very much," God said, and moved on. Thank you very much," God said, and moved on.
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Another Side to the Story: November 2013
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Stories and storytelling by Sandor (Sandy) Schuman. Friday, November 29, 2013. Same and Different: The Never-Ending Story of Chanukah. My given name is Sandor, which is derived from Alexander, and I am named after Alexander the Great. You should ask, why was a nice Jewish boy from New York named after Alexander the Great? For the rest of the story, told live at Sharing the Fire: The Northeast Storytelling Conference. Links to this post. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). You know you're a storyteller if . The W...
