What happens when a natural-born storyteller (I get it from my mother) ends up in a career where every day is spent in front of an audience telling stories?  Well, for me, it was 30+ years as an educator.  Oh, and don’t get the idea that I’m limiting “stories” to anything not directly related to the task at hand.  I told plenty of stories with hopeful ethical and moral shadings (more on those later) to help produce classrooms of mutually respectful and supportive students, but I told way more “stories” about math, science, English, history, and even physical education one year (just one class, but it was last period and we had a blast every day inventing new games or variations on old ones…Cone Ball, anyone?).  Think about it for a moment.  Try to remember when a new skill was being introduced to you or an old one was reviewed.