"The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story...

I'm waiting in unbelievable anticipation of Studio Ghibli's latest feature film, " The Secret World of Arrietty ." The f...

“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants,  rather than to create it herself.” Anais Nin This week a fri...

"Fairy stories are everywhere and every-day. We are all princes and princesses in disguise, or ogres or wicked dwarfs. All these histor...

Fairy tales and folklore has always featured a huge role in what keeps me going as an artist and a writer.  Creative Every Day has recently...

Just a shout out that today eHow has published my first two articles on folklore - " Types of Tricksters in Folktales " and "...