Storyteller, Storywriter

A long time ago in a galaxy fa...……

It was the best of times, it was the w...………

Call me Ishm.………

Hi!
I'm Terrance V. (Vaughn) Mc Arthur. I tell stories...and I make them up, too. 
(I also make things, and they may show up on this blog, as well.)


Storyteller - Part One
I was the oldest of five children in a theatrical family, which meant I was often Mr. Bedtime. There were the usual books read over and over (A Fish Out of Water by Helen Palmer*was very popular), and there were stories I knew (because I discovered folktales at an early age). There were ones everybody knows like "The Three Little Pigs" and "Little Red Riding Hood," but there were also tales like "The Three Sillies" and Aesop's "The Exploding Frog."** 

In the 70's, I earned money by doing puppet shows for birthday parties and other events.*** In the 80's, I moved more into shows for library summer reading programs,**** and I added magic tricks,***** and music,****** and balloon animals,******* and folktales.

 More to Come.....


* Tonight, I learned that Helen Palmer was Helen Palmer Geisel, the wife of Theodore Seuss Geisel, a.k.a. Dr. Seuss, and the book was based on a short story by her husband...which explains a lot.

** More commonly known as "The Frog and the Ox."

*** How I got into puppetry is a good subject for another post...but not today's.

**** How I got into libraries is a good subject for another post...but not today's.

***** How I got into magic is a good subject for another post...but not today's.

 ****** How I got into music is probably not a good subject for another post...but there is a good chance it will end up as a post...someday.

 ******* Have you noticed that I have a fondness for parentheses, dependent clauses, and footnotes? I used to send annotated letters to my mother (She liked them, but my siblings didn't like reading them - they claimed going down and up the page from the main text to the footnotes and back gave them whiplash.

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