RhythmSoled!

Hello everyone!

I have some great news that I am dying to share with all of you!

First off-- I just found out that I will be one of the "Best of the West" Tellers for the Mesa Storytelling Festival!! I am so excited, and honored to be part of this elite groupe of tellers. I started my storytelling career at the Mesa Festival as a Youth Teller and it feels great to have been able to work myself up the ladder! I am also going to be helping with the recruiting and training of this year's Youth Te… Continue

Well the National Storytelling Conference is over. Four days of learning, meeting people, and feeling a part of something huge and wonderful! And now... back to Arizona... ; )

This was the first conference Kim and I had ever been to and boy did we learn a lot!!! I learned that, well I still have a lot to learn. I still have much to create, much to recreate and much to revisit. Most importantly, learned that I really need to define myself as an artist. What IS so important about what I do? So I… Continue

Hello everyone!

It's been a while since I've been on, but I'm looking to change that!! First thing's first, many of you know, but I have started a business, RhythmSoled, that is devoted to furthering the importance of storytelling, dance, and theatre in our schools and communities. We are also advocates for youth involvement in storytelling and the performing arts. I own this business with my friend and partner Kim Sheperd who runs the business and handles much of the booking and marketing.

We… Continue

Summer is here! The season that all students long for! Finally a break! I was looking froward to this summer for other reasons too. I was planning on really focusing on my storytelling career. I had all these plans: get my press kit together, design an artistic mission statement, get my name out there in the Mesa/Phoenix school district as an artist, getting more stories.... all these plans.

Unfortunately, plans are not the same as action it seems. Real life tends to kick in. I have found mysel… Continue

This is easily one of my favorite stories! It is a wonderfully beautiful story written by Eileen Spinelli.

This story is about a spider named Sophie who is an artist! Sophie can take the elements around her and add them into her spinnings; things such as sunshine, snow flakes, blue from the sky, and starlight, are all colors and things that find themselves into her art. All the other spiders know that one day Sophie will create a Masterpiece!

Well the day comes when Sophie needs to find her ow… Continue