Born and raised on a farm outside of the small Kansas town of Clyde, I have been telling and writing stories for as long as I can remember and according to my family, even before. They claim that not long after I learned to talk, they would pull my highchair up to the kitchen table and I would regale them with tales of talking animals and barnyard shenanigans. At 19, I bought a guitar and moved to Nashville to learn the art of a different type of storytelling, songwriting. Kicking around in the music scene for several years, I sustained myself with jobs ranging from teaching classes about blen...