Today is Job Action Day, and the Quintessential Careers family of sites and blogs has united to encourage readers to take at least one proactive step to shore up their jobs or careers in the face of the current economic crisis. A Storied Career today brings you the story of … Continue reading
Author Archives: KatHansen
Stories of Joyful Joblessness
Barbara Winter tells an envy-provoking story of becoming a “gypsy teacher and seminar leader.” She always wanted to travel, doubted her career choice, and was bored in her early jobs. So …. she became Joyfully Jobless: I was afraid something was terribly wrong with me, that I might be a … Continue reading
The Web’s Secret Stories
I’ve been super-swamped this last week and feel like I haven’t given my best to my blog entries, but I have vowed to blog every day. I won’t say enough or as much as I want to about this one, but at least I am sharing. This TED talk features … Continue reading
Spooky Wordle
This week’s word cloud/tag cloud from Wordle.net based on the past week’s content of A Storied Career:
The Storytelling Bug: Roots in Childhood?
In a lovely post with beautiful photos (they look hand-tinted), “Dara,” who describes herself as “a twenty-something year old Christian and an aspiring historical fiction writer,” posed some interesting questions: Do you remember what age you started to read? What were some of your favorite books as a child? Were … Continue reading
Change the World: Rate Rakontu, A Community Story Tool, by Nov. 1
My virtual friend, Cynthia Kurtz (about whom I’ve blogged here and here and who will be the subject of a Q&A in December), is heading a team that prepared a grant application directed at the Knight News Challenge for a project to develop open-source software to support community storytelling. Says … Continue reading
Why Tell a Rape Story?
I was raped when I was college age on the streets of the city in which I first went to college. I have written about that experience a couple of times in the years since. Why tell such a personal story? In the case of Alice Sebold, author of the … Continue reading
Q&A with a Story Guru: David Vanadia
I am so pleased to present the twelfth installment in this series of interviews with some of the gurus of both performance and applied storytelling. This interview is with David Vanadia, whom I came across in an interesting way. Last fall, I sought resumes that I could make-over, fictionalize, … Continue reading
Seeking Financial Meltdown Stories for Job Action Day, Nov. 3
A Storied Career seeks your story of the current financial meltdown and how it has affected you. We seek both stories about negative effects on your job/career and positive stories about how you are being proactive regarding your job or career in the face of the current climate. I’ll publish … Continue reading
Sustainability Stories
OK, I admit that, although I care about the environment, it’s not one of my pet issues. As with any issue, however, passions can be aroused and change effected about the environment and sustainability through storytelling. And storytelling, I’m passionate about, especially its ability to promulgate change. Thus, I greatly … Continue reading