David Michael Sojourn-Dupuis was born in the ever oppressing heat and humidity of northeast Florida. and therefore likes hot weather. He enjoyed running more as a child than as an adult and feels that the educational infrastructure never really understood him. If it took the time to do so things could have been different between them….

The work of promoting the event, running a workshop, revising the workshop, and general administrative office work has prevented me from doing the real work. That real work is getting the stories out there. Making them available. We have two live events to hopefully fill that gap. Tonight is Story Jam at the Real Good…

This week I wrapped up the first Tell Us Something storytelling workshop for youth. I hope they learned as much as I did. Stephanie Wing, a multi- time Tell Us Something storyteller, teaches English Arts at Willard Alternative High School. She has been encouraging me to offer storytelling workshops for youth for years. I resisted…

The podcast is now live in iTunes. You can subscribe by searching Tell Us Something in iTunes, or following the handy tutorial embedded below. There are still problems with the podcast, like the owner should be Tell Us Something but it is listed as me. I will work to fix that. Meantime, please subscribe to…

I am working on making it easy to subscribe to the podcast. I don’t know why it is not working.  On an Android device, it works fine.  Using iTunes on a desktop machine, you have to subscribe manually, like this: Open iTunes Go to File -> Select SUBSCRIBE TO PODCAST Enter the URL http://feeds.feedburner.com/TellUsSomething and click OK….

Give Local Missoula was a success for Tell Us Something. We failed to reach our goal of $3,00 by only a slight margin, clocking in at $2,429 from 63 donors. Of the 130 or so non-profits participating, we won an extra $250 for having the most new donors between 5PM and 6PM. We were 7th…

Now that the website is live, my efforts turn to Give Local Missoula.  Give Local Missoula is a local initiative to increase philanthropy in Missoula County. This effort is brought to you by the Missoula Community Foundation. The 2015 Give Local Missoula will  take place during from midnight to midnight on Tuesday, May 5, 2015. For…

The purpose of the website, of course, is to highlight the storytellers and their stories. I would like to have the site published sooner rather than later. There are some issues I’d like to see resolved. The conclusion I am reaching is that these issues can be addressed over time. Waiting until things are just…

What time I fell asleep last night I do not remember. I do remember rising at 3:30AM and beginning work on revamping the Tell Us Something site. Right now I am listening to all of the stories from the past four years, adding summaries to all of them. During the listening, I continue building the website….

This edition of Tell Us Something was recorded on May 5th, 2014 at the Top Hat Lounge. This is a special edition of the podcast, being Story Jam, presented by Tell Us Something. A story jam is different from a story slam in that it is not a contest — everyone wins. This is the…