Just entering her second childhood, Liane is busily blogging on Myspace ( www.myspace.com/lianel ) and has just been turned on to Helium.com by her husband Steven, who also is now addicted to Helium.com.

This will leave her precious little time for her Labradoodle Dandy (yes, you have to sing it), her 5-year-old grandson, her motorcycle, gardening, sewing, knitting, crocheting, playing guitar, bass and Irish bodhran (a drum), and will seriously impose on her aspirations to be in a rock band.

She just finished directing a local theater production of The Vagina Monologs in February and looks forward to doing more improvisation, and directing a night of one act plays. That is, if she's not too exhausted from working at her day job with the State.

My passion is ...

life

I know too much about ...

life

My parents always told me ...

don't forget to be a kid.

My childhood ambition ...

to be a horsetrainer.

My favorite memory ...

my newborn son.

Why I write ...

because I MUST!

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

anything and everything. Except rap and country, and morons who crunch potato chips loudly.

My first job ...

McDonalds Counter Person

My best moment ...

realizing I could act

My inspiration ...

my husband

Hobbies & Games > Hobbies & Games (Other) The art of story telling

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I'm a horrible storyteller. That's why I was so stunned when, as I was telling a story at a renaissance faire, I looked up to find 50 people listening in rapt attention to my story. I had inadvertently stumbled upon the formula for perfect storytelling.

I had memorized the story by picturing the people and the events in the story. I also found it helpful to remember things by putting a body action or motion to the story. This also helped bring the story to life.

I was to begin the story at 2:30 and had 15 minutes to fill. As I began telling it, I had five people there. I set the sto...

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