Since Judith retired early in 2001 from the Edmonds School District as a Learning Resources Specialist (aka an elementary school librarian), she has lived part-time near Munich, Germany. The late iSchool Professor Spencer Shaw and Margaret Read MacDonald (M.Lib 1964) inspired her to tell stories, and Judith is active in storytelling guilds in both Seattle and Munich, where she tells stories to adults and in schools, mostly in English. This has led to invitations to Scotland, Latvia and Estonia, as well as to festivals in Germany.