"I immensely enjoyed hearing and experiencing the many different tales of various cultures that Ms. Shaughnessy so vividly told.  She captivated all of us, not only with her incredible stories but her voice and spirit.  Ms. Shaughnessy didn't merely tell us the stories, she showed us, she brought us into the story and into our imaginations which made us experience and feel the story as if we were actually there. This is very important for be because, as a child,I wasn't told many stories, but this has given me another chance to relive my childhood."
    
Lowell High School Senior in Advanced Composition.
San Francisco, CA
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"Olive uses the dramatic effect of strategic silence like an experienced fisherman casts a net: we fall, mesmerized, waiting in the palm of her hand for her resonate voice to lift us out of the void...Her voice imprints the images of which she speaks like holograms in the air around the ears of the listeners."

Leiah Bowden
Artist/Public Speaker
from the International Women's Writer's Guild Conference
Skidmore College

THE FAIRY TALE OF CRITICAL CARE
from Storyline Volume 22, No.2 
Storytelling Association of Alta California
www.storySAAC.org
A STORYTELLER'S PARABLE
 

Olive Hackett -Shaughnessy
OHStory@aol.com     (415)566-1149  
1376 La Playa Street San Francisco, CA 94122

The Healing Story Alliance
Words on the Wing: Issue 7, Spring 2002