Mike Farley

There once was a boy...

"There once was a boy, who had a dog, they went to a farm, ate a chicken, and then they went home." That's it. Nothing further, unless you count how many times this story has been told to my children at bedtime. You see, almost every night during their childhood, I told "mostly" original story — adventure tales, mysteries, spooky and silly stories and yarns yet to be classified. But with four kids with a span of 11 years from youngest to oldest, storytelling can be exhausting.