by Michelle Tocher | Aug 8, 2023
What exactly is a fable? By its very nature, a fable means something different to everyone. The word itself has many meanings. It can be seen as a falsehood, or a fictional story with a moral, or any mythic story that is not meant to be read literally. If you go to...
by Michelle Tocher | Apr 16, 2022
I’d like to dedicate this story “No Speak,” to my friend Ellen Jaffe, who passed on March 16, 2022, and will be missed dearly by many shining spirits. No Speak No Speak is a remarkable child. She’s about four years old. She has a large, round head...
by Michelle Tocher | Aug 29, 2021
I know this woman. She’s a story keeper. Her hair has gone white now, but right away you would notice the snapping light in her eyes. Her skin is crinkled and grey, and her hands are covered in spots. The joints are knobby and arthritic, but she still writes. She’s...
by Michelle Tocher | Nov 19, 2020
Every now and then I hear about the flights that my little book “The Broad Mind” has been making around the world. The other day I received a note from Colleen Reichrath-Smith, a certified Global Career Development Facilitator who is working in the Netherlands. She...
by Michelle Tocher | Jan 23, 2019
After presenting “The History of my Voice” last week at the Health and Spirituality Network meeting in Toronto, I discovered this little two-part monologue that I had written several years ago. It emerged out of the insight that the myth of Persephone’s abduction into...
