Next year, I will celebrate my 20 year anniversary – 20 years of telling stories on stage. But this year, we’re celebrating 15 years of Better Said Than Done. Or I should say, we celebrated 15 years of Better Said Than Done – and it was fantastic!
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Better Said Than Done turned 15 in 2026, and we made September our month of celebrations – with two storytelling shows and with some fabulous testimonials from some of the storytellers we’ve worked with over the years.
Check out the Better Said Than Done Youtube Channel Here to watch all of the testimonials. Or watch this short recap video with testimonials from Norm Brecke, Bil Lepp, Ingrid Nixon, Anne Rutherford, and Donna Washington, and special appearances by Claire Hennessy and Bonnie Gardner, and many, many more.
On September 3rd, Better Said Than Done hosted our first of two 15 year celebration storytelling shows at Jammin’ Java, in Vienna, VA. If you were there, or watched the recording, you might’ve realized the significance. Though we, as an organization, started by hosting fundraising shows for the Walker Nature Center, our first storytelling show under the name Better Said Than Done, was at Jammin’ Java.
Bonnie Gardner did a wonderful job emceeing “Huzzah,” and storytellers Nick Baskerville, J.R. Denson, John Kreul, Carol Moore, Joe Morice, Miriam Nadel, Ravi Pimplaskar, Jessica Robinson, and Delegate Holly Siebold put on a fantastic show. I premiered a new story that was actually about the story I had told at Jammin Java 15 years ago, and how things have changed since then.
On September 24th, we celebrated online, with “Hip Hip Hooray!” I emceed and had an absolute blast watching storytellers Karin Amano, Galen Brandt, Tim Ereneta, Heather Forest, Chetter Galloway, Claire Hennessy, Andy Offutt Irwin, Ria Spencer, and Megan Wells.
Both shows were, for me as the founding executive director, a moving tribute to what 15 years of diverse storytelling looks like. They were both such a lift to my spirits. It’s a great feeling knowing how much these people – who I admire so much – hold my organization in such high esteem. It gave me enough of a boost to keep going for at least another year, if not another 15.
2026 is all about celebrating Better Said Than Done. In 2027, I’ll be celebrating my 20 year anniversary the best way I know how – with tons of storytelling!
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