Stories

The Foolish Wise Man

I wrote this song in 1987 for a theatre show I was in. Many years later I drew some illustrations, and a couple of buddies and I got together and sang it for posterity.

The Cat and the Caveman

This is one of two "modern myths" from my self-published book "The Cat and the Caveman." The other story is about--yes--a Caveman.

"The Caveman" of "The Cat and the Caveman"

And this is the second story from the same book.

The Fisherman and His Wife

This is the first storytelling project my friend Tercio and I did together. His is the choice of story, and the marvelous voice. Mine are the drawings.

The Saga of the People With the See-Through Heads

I wrote this in 1986, while sitting behind the cash register in the Smoke Shop of the Heyburn building in Louisville, KY. It basically wrote itself.

How Creatures Got Their Features! (Well, Maybe)

I started this one after "The Saga" (above) and thought it would just spill out on the page like its predecessor. Nope. This one took thirty years, on and off. My friend Tercio's is the magnificent voice, and the putting-it-all-together on iMovie.

BEOWULF!!!

My father--an English professor--used to tell this story to my sister and me as we sat in the tub when we were tiny. It's one of my earliest and dearest memories. My friend Tercio helped me honor that memory of my dad with his voice, and editing talents. Mine are the pictures and the script of this particular version.

SillyNose DeBirdgerac

For a long time we suspected female toucans might be attracted to male toucans with larger, more colorful, and well maintained bills. The prevailing thought was these attributes might signify to the female toucan a healthier male, capable of producing healthier offspring. Sometime within the last twenty years, what we'd suspected for a long time gained support from statistical evidence collected in the field.