by Bernadette Nason | Sep 6, 2013 | Uncategorized
You may have heard that I finished my first draft of TEA IN TRIPOLI last weekend — 65,000 words of potential, just waiting for my twitchy fingers to create a fabulous second draft. Oh, but all those words wore out these fingers, and they are attached to...
by Bernadette Nason | Aug 15, 2013 | Uncategorized
I’d only vaguely heard of the National Storytelling Network in 2005 when my new friend Donna Ingham told me that there was to be a storytelling conference in Oklahoma City, OK. In a gesture of true mentor-ship, she offered to share her hotel room with this...
by Bernadette Nason | Jul 21, 2013 | Uncategorized
When I was at the store buying groceries which included a bottle of wine, the cashier asked to check my driving license. I don’t flatter myself that I’m being carded because I look under-age but it always makes me smile. The cashier, who couldn’t...
by Bernadette Nason | Jul 9, 2013 | Uncategorized
When you can’t speak the language or read the papers or mix with the locals or even walk the streets of the place you call home, it’s difficult to find out what’s going on around you. In such a closed world, hearsay and gossip are often all...
by Bernadette Nason | Jun 3, 2013 | Uncategorized
As the mercury rises here in Austin, Texas, so the bugs are re-appearing. This morning, I heard movement in my waste paper basket and knew it was a cockroach. And there it was, big ol’ feelers waving in the air! Ugh! I was reminded of my first cockroach...
