“Grandma tell me a story,” originated with my granddaughter’s magic words “Amma, tell me a story.” But it was my daughter Lila’s suggestion that gave birth to the website.
I’ve always loved making up stories and have a passion for fairy tales and myths.
My granddaughter Edrisina also loves stories. She is especially fond of fairy tales and stories about witches and wizards. And when we’re together she always requests new ones.
If asked, “What do you want the story to be about?” she becomes very specific. The first of a continuing series began when she asked: “Amma, what do you think happens after Goldilocks leaves the three bears’ house?”
This process of on-demand story creation has released a flood of tales I hadn’t even realized I contained.
When I gave my then four-year-old granddaughter and a friend’s nine-year-old twins several stories bound as “illustrate-it-yourself books,” with lots of blank pages and sets of colored pens, I was told that after school, the twins spent hours illustrating the stories.
Originally employed by “Head Start,” when my son was born, I ran a home daycare business until he was six. I’ve worked as an “Artist In The Schools”, and created an art curriculum for a multiage elementary class.
I Taught Sunday School for four years for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, also home schooling my children through several years of elementary and middle school.
I am a poet, artist and harpist with a M.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies: sociology, psychology and anthropology.
“Grandma tell me a story,” originated with my granddaughter’s magic words “Amma, tell me a story.” But it was my daughter Lila’s suggestion that gave birth to the website.