Celebrating National Poetry Month

Did you know that April is National Poetry Month? In celebration of all things poetic, I will cover how to ask about a storyteller’s favorite poem, their favorite poet, and how you can use the Poetry Foundation website as a resource. The first thing I ever published was poetry. I was in 4th grade, it…

What is your favorite April Fools’ Day Memory

This post almost didn’t get written. With everything going on I was having a hard time deciding if this would be a good time to post something about April Fool’s Day. In the end, I decided that giggles and laughter are part of the human experience too and we need to have a few every…

How to Keep People Engaged Right Now

I had a really cool plan for the month but along with everything else, it had to change. I’m sure you can relate. While everyone works to adapt to a different normal and a new approach to staying engaged and being connected, there will inevitably be things that fall through the cracks. The stuff we…

How to honor death & grief

honor death - candles in the dark representing death

This weekend is one of the hardest ones out of the year for me. Mostly because Saturday is the date of my Dad’s death. He actually died on Tuesday. Dates and days are funny things when they come up so many years later. Our bodies remember the days rather than the dates, at least that…

5 minute storytelling & memory loss

Recently I had the chance to visit my grandfather in his memory care home. It had been a number of years since I had seen him, so the changes in him were overwhelming evident. I knew going in that he would not be the person I remembered as a young woman. I also knew that…