Sharing stories with students

I realize I have not written in this blog in a while. Life gets busy and I forget I have it.
I was able to do a program of storytelling last week for a middle school GTA class. The students are  studying storytelling, with the goal of developing a story to tell to younger students.
How fun it was to share my storytelling experiences and then share a few different stories. I did a flannelboard story of The Enormous Turnip that some of them also helped me act out. And they helped with sound effects for the story It Could Always Be Worse. Other stories I included were The Runaway Wok and Two Bear Cubs, along with my version of The Frog Prince, which included my frog puppet.
I don't do as much storytelling outside the library as I would like, but I always love the opportunity when it comes.
Happy Storytelling!

More pictures from the Menlo Park Public Library Storytelling Festival. I had a great time!

I also told The Boy who Drew Cats last Saturday at the Skyline Screamers event in the Heights. Several scary stories were told and it was great! I am glad I didn't miss it!

I will next be telling stories at Providence Classical School in Spring on Monday Oct. 29. I was able to tell to the younger children last year and I am excited to go again. With stories about fall, harvest and animals, it should be fun for all attending.

Have a great week! Tell a story!!!

Storytelling at Menlo Park Public Library was great!

I did a program of stories last Tuesday at Menlo Park Public Library. The audience of kids and adults was great and I told a variety of folk tales, along with my personal story about my favorite dog Albert. Take a look at the pictures!
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10156211872913822&type=1&l=c1e57e90c1

Storytelling in California October 16, 2018

I will be doing a program of stories as part of the Menlo Park Public Library Storytelling Festival on October 16, 2018 at 7pm. I look forward to being back in California and sharing some stories for the whole family.

https://menlopark.org/Calendar.aspx?EID=4682&month=10&year=2018&day=12&calType=0

https://www.menlopark.org/adults

Storytelling this summer

 I hope you had a great summer. I had a busy one, moving to a smaller place and getting unpacked. 

But I was also able to do some storytelling. In July I did a program of scary stories to Tweens at the Conroe Main Library. That was really fun, with a good group of tweens and parents.

In August I was part of the Vacation Bible School at Pines Presbyterian Church in Houston. Each day my puppet Sam and I told a story from the Bible related to PEACE. I loved the kids and adults and I think they liked me too, or at least liked Sam. He even gave a bunch of the kids High 5's that last day. :-)

If you know of any place that would like a storyteller, please let me know or give them my name. I have got to keep spreading stories around!

Houston Storytellers Guild

Hi Everyone
I just wanted to let you know I finally decided to be part of the Professional Storyteller Listing on the Houston Storytellers Guild website. The link is below. I hope it will lead to more stories being told.
I do love doing that.
http://www.houstonstorytellers.org/our-storytellers/

Take care! All the best!

Check out one of my favorite stories!

Below is the link to a story- Two Bear Cubs. Take a look!
I hope you enjoy this California folktale set in Yosemite.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci2YIdsBCiw