Joyce's storytelling career began nearly 25 years ago when she shared a favorite Russian folk tale with her son's third grade class. Since then she has told her stories in a number of venues besides American (and Costa Rican) schools and libraries: festivals, concerts, story slams, churches, parks, coffee houses, retirement homes, and, once, with passengers in a car that had pulled over to wait for an Arizona dust storm to run its course. The kinds of stories she tells mirror the same wide-ranging variety, from personal tales that are based on her own experience to folk tales that capture the