Let me tell you about Bertha Louise. Her character is rock-solid. She is constant and unmoveable. She is always smiling. and I never hear her complain. She gives joy to all who see her. Whenever people pass by, they point and smile. I remember when she arrived at my house. My neighbor, who was getting […]
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Kaboom is a cleaning product. I discovered it while I was visiting my son in Florida. I was helping clean his apartment and the product worked. When it was time to take a break, I went for a walk. My son lived in a gated community with multiple apartment buildings. A canal ran through the
My daughter Sandra is currently moving into the world of Zoom presentations. One of her friends sent her a whole box of shiny presentation necklaces. These necklaces are apparently a current fad. I can relate to this. Now that I am storytelling on Zoom, much of my storytelling apparel is not being used because the
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Last month I went to a storytelling conference in Denton, Texas. Zoom allowed me to attend without leaving my home. I loved the workshops and the storytelling concerts. I was particularly impressed by two children who did a tandem performance of Interrupting Chicken by David Ezra Stein. Papa Chicken was reading his child a bedtime
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When she saw that rattlesnake under the swing set in the front yard, my mother, Edna Pope, did not hesitate. She sent her children into the house. She didn’t give the snake the opportunity to coil and strike. Edna chased that snake around the house and into the backyard. As she passed the woodpile, she
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My Golden Tales of California storytelling program had ended. The stories were all told. The students’ questions had been answered, and the students were on their way back to their classrooms. One fourth grade boy turned back and asked, “Do you give autographs?’ “Yes.” “I’ll get a piece of paper and be right back,” he
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Writing was challenging for my son. And deciding what to write was made even more difficult when the teacher provided the prompt: “What is your favorite. . . .?” She thought she was providing an easy writing prompt, but my son was stymied. How could he decide which was his very most favorite thing? And
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We were exploring. Marilyn and I had taken our children down to the Arroyo to explore. We weren’t sure what we were looking for, but we were exploring. The stream in the Arroyo had overflowed the banks. Sandra, my daughter, and Andy, Marilyn’s son, wanted to wade in the stream and explore the pathway through
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The hammering above me continued throughout the day. A new roof was in process. I kept the door to my office shut as I continued work on my blog. A tremendous crash came from the kitchen and reverberated through the house. Did one of the roofers fall through my ceiling? Was someone hurt? I abandoned
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