Jan grew up listening to tales being spun by her elders on a wide sunny front porch in Tennessee. She learned to appreciate the expressions of southern culture, the well-timed pauses and the pure nature of -- how else to say it? --lying! Storytelling is not necessarily about the truth of what happened. It is all in the telling. It is all in the nature of the woven tendrils of charged magic pulsating between the teller and the listener. With all of those memories firmly entrenched in her background, it is no wonder she became a librarian and an artist, telling stories audibly and visually.

In her “previous lifetimes”, Jan has been a public school librarian, a public storyteller, a university instructor, a book illustrator, a commissioned artist, a muralist, an art teacher, a craftsman, and an author of teacher resource books. Not afraid to try on any hat -- there are stories everywhere, you know! -- she retired to run a campground. These days she considers herself “Grandma Mosey” and has moseyed back into the element she most feels at home in --storytelling!

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