OK, Conrad, talk about your storytelling. I love a good storyteller and they're few and far between. Willie Claflin mentioned last spring in a storytelling event that there are only about 60 professional (as in making a living only by telling) tellers in this country. Frankly, on consideration, I'm surprised there ARE that many. It's not a big field.

You said, "This is particularly true for storytellers. I can tell one of the big leaders wondrous stories for hours with approvial but they still want me to sit at their feet an evening a month before you get any where near a stage. Always scares them to run into tellers at the professional level who just happen to get in through the back door of a venue. I came to learn that the best venues are not formal stages but people in line for the restroom who really need a few good short stories. Grand applause all the time."

Tell away. If people come to love your stories AND YOUR DELIVERY enough, maybe someday you'll be paid for it.