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Funny thing about writing a column; as you read this, you and I are having a conversation but when I write, I am alone, and my focus is extremely narrow.…

Bilingual Stories Bring Our Community Together   When Alma Flor Ada first read the ancient Aztec story, The Lizard and the Sun, “It was not more than a paragraph in…

Ancient Wisdom for Modern Life Stories of indigenous people preserve the “old language” that unites the human and more than human worlds, as Nalungiag, an Innuit woman, explained to ethnologist…

Our Stories Shape Our World The Lascaux caves in southern France are the oldest known signs of storytelling. “A 36,000 year old painting in the Chauvet cave,” according to a…