Curator & Teller: Tony McCaffrey

To create, collect, and share tales, fables, and parables that express the best in human values.

I tell both religious and non-religious stories depending on what is appropriate for the venue I perform in.

Stories are presented at this site in audio alone, in videos with audio and illustrations, and in text alone.

Catholic-Christian

former Jesuit brother, practicer of Ignation spirituality

MA in Theology, Boston College

MA in Philosophy, Loyola University Chicago

MS in Computer Science, Indiana University

PhD in Cognitive Psychology, UMass Amherst, dissertation on creativity and problem solving

professional oral storyteller

winner of a Gabriel Catholic Broadcasting Award

storytelling teacher at Cambridge Adult Education Center when I lived in Cambridge

Teller McCaffrey can come perform stories.

He can also give oral storytelling lessons.

Contact at:

tony.curator.dovetales@gmail.com

For the religious stories, I follow two principles of St. Ignatius of Loyola:

(1) “Enter through their door but be sure to leave through your door.” For example, in The Greatest Christmas Toy Ever, children listeners enter into a toy store in which all the toys compete with each other to see who is the greatest (their door) and at the end of the story all the toys are genuflecting in front of a wind-up Nativity scene because they understand who really is the greatest (your door).

(2) Finding God in all things. For example, in Connecting the Stars, young Timmy loves connect-the-dots books because they reveal a picture at the end. When Timmy tries to connect all the stars in the sky in the right order, he gets just a glimpse of what the Face of God might be like and how amazing it is.

If you would like to contribute an idea, story, or illustration, please contact me:

tony.curator.dovetales@gmail.com

If you want to contact me for an event of storytelling or story-teaching, email me at the address below.

If you would like to join our growing community of creators, tellers, and artists committed to our mission, please email me at:

tony.curator.dovetales@gmail.com