Storytellers Unplugged

Think back.  Way back.  Lying-in-your-bassinet back.  What kind of formula were you raised on?  No-no…I don’t mean breast milk/formula.  I mean how was your life orchestrated?  Dr. Spock baby?  Schedules/organization/chaos/mommy-was-on-Valium?  Meat and potatoes lifestyle?  (Dunno…I’ve repressed all that)?  The answer is very important to your imagination and creativity.  No question, creativity can either be given [...]

If something has to be kept secret, it must be true.  Secrets are self-proving.  Lies are loud and wear red hats, e.g. Santa Claus.  Okay, I’m being a tad glib here.  I do not mean that only secrets are true or that all red hats – i.e. loud proclamations — are lies (your red hat [...]

As one control freak to another…  Uh-oh, way to go, Sully.  You’ve alienated your entire readership already.  But the essential thing about being human – about being anything with a pulse and choices – is trying to control one’s living conditions to make them beneficial to one’s self, isn’t it?  AKA survival.  Like I was [...]

The Grand Inquisitor of the Spanish Inquisition hisself – Torquemada – has nothin’ on you guys!  What a bonanza of questions and comments came in from around the globe last month in response to the Q. & A. format.  Probing, intelligent, deep and even beastly stuff – and damn near Truth or Dare.  You’re having [...]

Help…I have locked myself in the bathroom with a loaded pistol and I don’t know how much time I have left before I pull the trigger.  I know this is where I have to be now.  It’s a desperate move, but I am desperate.  I saw the mosquito fly in here, and if I don’t [...]