About Me

What Storytelling Means To Me

Storytelling is the base of all human culture. At least, it is the base of me, and my culture. My dad was the first person to introduce me to the power that storytelling has. He would read James Whitcomb Riley, J. R. R. Tolkien, and Kurt Vonnegut to me as a child, and when we just couldn’t bring ourselves to read from a text he would tell me stories about our family or he would make up his own stories. He instilled in me the belief that stories connect us, literature connects us. It doesn’t matter if the story is about a group of people going off on a quest in a far off land; the things that they went through, the human emotion that they went through, was the same as us in my bedroom in Greensburg, Indiana. I knew that I needed to become a storyteller like my dad and all the other great writers; I needed to be a part of the culture. So I went to Journalism school in Indianapolis to be a storyteller of the people.