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Laura
Registered User
(12/27/01 3:09:52 pm)
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intro
Greetings one and all. Just a bit slow on my reading. :-) I'm Laura Scheuer, 22 and a budding graduate student in Comparative Literature, once these bloody applications are done! Have lived in Georgia near metro Atlanta all my life, and applying to Emory, Duke, and Indiana U at Bloomington. No publications yet, but have been accepted to present at ICFA and NEMLA in the spring. Now just have to get the work polished ... ::swoons::
Same as most others here, my lifelong interest in mythology/folklore/fairy tales/what have you led me to my current path. I'm slowly working on an academic book rooted in the evolution of a Japanese folk character. My other interests revolve around film, gender studies, psychology, Romanticism, and the English, American, German, and Japanese literary traditions. I'm entirely too self-conscious of my work to be the novelist my friends and family expect! Still, I did use my last piece of creative work to help win my sweetheart, so I guess it isn't all bad. ;-) Also a longtime fan of many of the amazingly talented folks who post here -- we are all in awe of you!
Laura
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Terri
Registered User
(12/28/01 8:06:26 am)
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hello to Ruth
Hi, Ruth, and thanks for de-lurking! I love your art, and I'm glad you're joining our discussions. (Thanks for that bit of arm-twising, Charles.)
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janeyolen
Unregistered User
(12/28/01 9:00:51 am)
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Hi Ruth!
Hi Ruth--and Heidi, please note that her Sleeping Beauty is MY Sleeping Beauty as well! (G) And my husband posed for the king, my daughter for the orange fairy, and I posed for the cook. In the 12 Dancing Princesses, she fattened my husband up for the king and I am the old woman along the road. We love Ruth Sanderson!
And Ruth--my daughter and her two (gorgeous) daughters, ages 18 and 6 are moving back (with H's husband) to Hatfield come the summer. So more fine models for you.
Jane
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/28/01 11:55:50 am)
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Re: Hi Ruth!
Shucks, Jane, of course I knew that.
In fact, I have some library patrons mad at me because they just HAD to go out and buy "How Do Dinosaurs Say Goodnight?" for holiday gifts since I can't keep any copies on the shelves here at the library. It's all my fault since I insist on reading it for visiting storytime groups.
: )
Heidi
Hopefully they will be upset in that good kind of way once I start Fairy Tale Theatre as part of my weekly storytimes at the library in January. I'll be using all the books I can get my hands on in the library for young and old then.
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SPW
Registered User
(12/28/01 9:08:18 pm)
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Re: intros
I don't post here often, but I read frequently. I am a high school teacher who tries to get students to connect. I also try to foster a love for fairy tales and folktales in their lives.
I am completing a MA in English Education. My thesis revolves around fairy tales.
I love to bicycle. This past summer, my wife and I completed a bicycle trip from Seaside, Florida to Bar Harbor, Maine. Someday I would like to start a school that would allow students to take classes as they tour the country by bicycle. I truly believe the world would be a better place if more people would read and ride bikes.
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NancyMe
Registered User
(12/29/01 8:09:04 am)
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Intro
Hello, I'm Nancy Pennell. I lurk often and have posted a few times. I'm an eternal fiancee and keeper of 2 cats. I'm a middle school teacher - special ed - and use fairy tales, folktales, legends, and mythology as often as I can to connect and teach with my students. It allows for "simple" reading with complex and deep meaning. I thank all of you for the wonderful work you create. I am thrilled to be able to communicate with you on this forum. Thanks Heidi!
warm wishes,
Nancy
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Rhonda
Registered User
(12/29/01 11:41:22 am)
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Re: intros
Greetings all!
My name is Rhonda Brunea. I live in a tiny town in New York state, south of Buffalo - which is getting pelted with a huge snowstorm at the moment! I am a homeschooling mom of four, ages 6 - 13, and I work part-time in a grocery store. My husband and I are living separately, but he helps us in many ways, including financially, so I finally have time to pursue writing.
I found this group just this morning while searching for research help on fairy tales and folklore. It was exactly what I'd been looking for, so I immediately signed on. It was only a few minutes ago while reading the intros that I realized who Terri and Jane and some of the others are. I am all a-tremble at the thought of being able to sit at their feet and learn!
I have been published here and there - short stories, meditations, short articles. Lately, I've developed an insatiable appetite for my childhood stories, and with my usual lightening-like perception, figured out that I could actually study fairy tales and such and base my own fiction on these time-honored patterns. I've also begun learning about the mythological Hero's Journey form. All this is fascinating and new to me. I just want to eat it all up! Thank you all for sharing the magic.
Blessings in abundance
Rhonda
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Stacy
Unregistered User
(12/30/01 12:00:29 am)
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me too
Hello all,
I am in my 30's, and recently began following a secret dream- I am a puppeteer. I am currently applying to Grad School for puppetry at UCONN. I build puppets and make dolls out of various materials, including foam and polymer clay. I am a friend, a strict vegetarian/vegan, roll-player, dog-owner, storyteller, baker, and I love knitting, sewing and other crafts. I like to write and am practicing/working on my drawing skills. I collect small decorative boxes and all kinds of things that glitter or are related to fantastical creatures.
I feel very priviledged to be able to access this board and read the thoughts, insights, and ideas of so many brilliant and creative folks. I am an avid reader of fantasy, science fiction, and fairy tales, and recently have begun delving into some folklore (thanks to this site). I visit this board a lot. I rarely post but I recommend it and the Endicott site to people all the time.
Thanks to Heidi and everyone who makes this board such a wonderful place to come and learn.
Stacy
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Heidi
Anne Heiner
ezOP
(12/30/01 1:18:52 pm)
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Re: me too
Oh, in my next life I will be a puppeteer! For now I just use store bought ones in as many of my storytimes as possible.
There are many great puppeteers here in LA and we had Nancy Mitchell perform at our library in October. She is great and has worked with Frank Oz and Jim Henson. I hope to have her back this summer during summer reading club. She did a wonderful job explaining how she built her puppets and marionettes to the children. Her portable stage was amazing, too.
Heidi
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NancyMe
Registered User
(1/1/02 8:44:39 am)
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intro's
I too have longed to be a puppeteer! I'm an avid doll collector and dabbling in making them. Having just switched careers from business to teaching I may have to wait awhile to follow that dream. However, I'm in CT and had no idea that UCONN had such a program. Maybe I could take a few courses, hmmmm...
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eearth
Unregistered User
(1/2/02 11:55:50 am)
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Intro
Hi all -- I'm Elise Earthman, wife, mother (to human child and parrot children), English professor and now transitioning into being a dean at my university -- a big change from teaching.
I've long enjoyed myth and fairy tales, especially the way that they transform over time. To that end, I'm building a database on the web that collects the names of works by contemporary writers that transform classical myth, fairy tales, the Bible, and Shakespeare. If you visit now, you'll find it heavy on the myth side, but I'm adding to it all the time and am currently collecting fairy tale stuff to put on there (have tracked down almost all of Terri's collections so that I can include selections from those books). The address is online.sfsu.edu/~earthman/transformations, if anyone is interested in visiting. I will gladly take any and all suggestions for texts to include.
Elise
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Jess
Unregistered User
(1/2/02 12:59:45 pm)
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puppeteer
Nancy and Stacey,
Welcome. Hey, I am occasionally in touch with Frank Garvey (we grew
up in the same house - different times) who just finished a stint
at Carnegie Melon and is back in San Fran with his Omni-Circus,
really robotics, not puppeteering, but has some great stuff on his
website. Why not check it out. Caution: he definitely has his own
way at looking at things. May have to do with growing up in a round
house.
Anyway, check it out. www.omnicircus.com
Enjoy!
Jess
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Meagan
Unregistered User
(1/2/02 1:16:22 pm)
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Allow myself to introduce...myself
I'm Meagan, full-time lurker and part-time poster here. I was tipped off to this site by Ellen Steiber while I was living in NYC working for a children's publishing company. (BTW--Happy Holidays, Ellen). I finished my MA in Folklore from Indiana University about three years ago. My thesis examined literary forms of Bluebeard--Grimms, Perrault, Carter, and Atwood--anyway, if I get started writing about it, I'll never stop.... I'm particularly interested in how and why contemporary western culture makes use of fairy and folk tales.
I recently left NYC, moved back to Washington state to become a second grade teacher. I'm so glad for this site and all the fascinating people who post here--writers, scholars, artists, wonderers all. It's inspiring!
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RedRockGirl
Registered User
(1/4/02 12:45:51 pm)
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Re: Allow myself to introduce...myself
Hi all--I've been lurking here for a while but wouldn't allow myself to post until I finished school which--yay!--I just did. And here you all are introducing yourselves so for once my timing is of the good.
My name is Julie and I am a librarian, among other things. I live in the wonderously beautiful state of Utah (yes its crazy, but the red rocks of Southern Utah and the Wasatch mountains I can see from here more than make up for it) where I hike and fish and read and watch Buffy and occassionally make books (when I'm not going to school.) I'm interested, of course, in all things fairy tale/folklore and couldn't believe my luck when I stumbled across this forum while searching the web for a school project.
I'll probably keep lurking for a bit as I attempt to adjust to life as a non-student, but I wanted to at least say hello and thank everyone for the lovely time I've had here so far.
Julie
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bardichaun
Registered User
(1/4/02 10:01:34 pm)
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Re: intros
Not an reintroduction but an introduction, in that I am also knew here. Taedg Seosamh Padraig O'Riley at your service (how did a traveller get such a mouthful of a name? now that is a story for a different time.) I made a decision when my oldes son was born in 1978 that he (and later his brother)deserved my full attention so I sort of stopped doing anything. Now that they are both grown,sort of,I am getting back into the swing of things. As a NaNoWriMo alumni I have gone from wanna be writer to wannabe published again author. I am putting together two collections of music,on original and one celtic and negotiating a display of some of my art (stops to laugh at that thought). I have also done guest lectures in Celtic Music,creative writing,and fantasy/folk lore.
I currently live in Ohio,after a life of knacking around most of North America,I have two sons and am engaged to the most delightful lady,said marriage to take place after we get her INS junk cleared away.
In short, a Jack of all trades,a Master of none but having a grand and glorious time doing it all anyway.
Edited by: bardichaun at: 1/6/02 5:33:13 am
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omarmorales
Registered User
(1/7/02 10:41:13 am)
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Re: intros
I AM HAPPY TO KNOW YOU ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
:)
can anyone help me put a biblio database online......?
I have about 1800 books in it about Myth, folk and legends....
the Arthur stuff is not it it yet.
Omar
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John Bridges
Unregistered User
(1/7/02 12:04:36 pm)
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introductions
Hello all,
I just discovered this board (thanks to Charles Vess), and am glad to have found a place where so many interesting folks hang out. I'm an artist/illustrator/art director currently working for a game development company called Holistic Design (www.holistic-design.com). I do art direction and illustration for our space fantasy roleplaying game Fading Suns; some of you may have encountered the review/profile of the game that appeared in Realms of Fantasy a few months back.
Anyway, I have a long standing interest in mythology, folklore, fairytales of all sorts, and we try to explore some of those ideas in our work at Holistic. Fading Suns incorporates a magical worldview into a far future setting (I used to describe it to some people as 'a fantasy story in science fiction drag'). There's generally a kind of segregation between the kinds of themes and ideas normally explored in science fiction and those considered part of the fantasy genre, and were commited to bluring that distinction, and I'm not just talking about the props involved: blasters and rocketships vs. swords and shields. The very idea of that vast void of space that awaits us beyond our planets edge ('beyond the fields we know') is rich with mystery and a numinous sense of destiny; what kind of new myths would our experience of that different world invoke?
Greetings all; I'm looking forward to hanging out with you here.
--John
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Gail
Unregistered User
(1/7/02 9:10:46 pm)
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hello all
My name is Gail de Vos and I am a storyteller and author as well as an instructor of childrens literature, young adult literature, and comic books for the library school in Edmonton, Alberta Canada. I have also been teaching a storytelling class each term for the past 13 years for the school as well as travelling around telling tales. I specialize in telling tales to teens and my books are all reference books pertaining to different aspects of that interest. Heidi has very kindly posted my latest two books on the welcome page as they focus on folktales and contemporary reworkings of them for young adult audiences. Another book focuses on urban legends (Tales, Rumors and Gossip) and on stories to tell to young adults (Storytelling for Young Adults which is now out of print but in the midst of being "rennovated" under the working title of Tales Teens Love to Tell).
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allysonrosen
Registered User
(1/11/02 5:06:42 pm)
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Re-intro...back from the depths of Grad school...
Allyson Rosen here...
I'm currently a grad student desperately trying to tough out an M.F.A. in Acting with a focus on the creation of New Works. I've been obsessed with mythology, fairy tales and storytelling since I could read. In fact, I just un-earthed a tape recording I made of myself reading Cinderella out loud when I was seven. Very appropos discovery, considering that I'm about to open a show that I wrote based on fairy tales...it all comes full circle...Actually, what inspired me to write this play was reading Terri and Ellen's Snow White, Rose Red, et. al. anthologies. I had never read modern adaptations of fairy tales before then, and reading them turned me on to my now favorite authors...Angela Carter, Margaret Atwood, and Anne Sexton. In fact, as soon as I'm done writing my thesis I want to write a theatre piece based on Anne Sexton's life and works.
I beleive myth and storytelling to be an intrinsic part of theatre; no matter how deep into "modern realism" one gets, you can still find mythological origins in every play. As an actress/creator, I think it is imperetive for me to explore those roots, and be inspired by them.
P.S., I used to post often on this site a while back, but the whirlwind of thesis writing and the life of a grad student caught up with me...its good to be back!
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Terri
Registered User
(1/12/02 6:06:08 am)
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Re: Re-intro...back from the depths of Grad school...
Allyson, have you read the essay by Anne Sexton's daughter (about her mother in relation to fairy tales) in Kate's book, "Mirror. Mirror on the Wall: Women Writers Explore Their Favorite Fairy Tales"? It's fascinating.
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