The Box That Waits: A Modern Twist on an Ancient Fairy Tale
A story of desire and the patience of forgotten things.
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A Fairy Tale: The Listening Tree
A story of when the distance between a told thing and an untold thing was believed to matter enormously.
The Fullness of Stone: A Fairy Tale of What is Needed
A story older than its telling...
A Folktale of the Dolomites and the Origin of Edelweiss
This story explains the origins of the edelweiss flower and why the Dolomite peaks are so hauntingly bare.
Tanna, Queen of the Crodères: A Neolithic Folktale
Several years ago my son and I went hiking through the Lavaredo Pass, high in the Dolomites. It was warm down in the valley, but as we went higher, the temperature dropped considerably despite the sunny weather. As we climbed, we came upon the remnants of trenches, fortifications and tunnels
Consensual Hair Cutting and Money Sharing: Two Modern Fairy Tales
Recently the trial of the World Junior Hockey League men was concluded. It got me to thinking… Consensual Hair Cutting In a far or not so far way land, a woman’s hair was not just her “crowning glory”… it was a measure of her worth. In this land, hair