The beginning of the school year is a perfect time for an assembly program that will start your children out on the right foot. The calls...

The poster contains 143 historical pen and ink portraits drawn by artist Tim Hartman for the new book from Savas Beatie Publishing: ‘Disc...

It's the question I have to answer the most from people who are interested in having me do a performance. If I'm not telling a traditiona...

Can we learn anything from a character that behaves poorly? I often portray terrible people in both my storytelling and plays. The antago...

Yesterday, May 25, I did a performance for a large group of 6th graders at a school south of Pittsburgh called Neil Armstrong Middle Scho...

Just this last week, alone, I have performed for a group of pre-schoolers, a group of senior citizens who donate their time as tutors, th...

Recently I was performing at a 'Book Festival' in Youngstown, OH. I really enjoy these kinds of venues. Usually, when I perform, it's for...

Last Friday I spent the day at a couple of elementary schools in the Elizabeth Forward School District. I'm not sure I've ever laughed as...

Saturday, April 29th, I'll be performing for the fourth time at the Youngstown Children's Book Festival. It's a lovely park and an amazin...

(First Grade class picture. I'm in the second row down, third from the left.) When I was three, my family went to visit a friend of my fa...

Yesterday I performed my 'Construct-a-tale' assembly for 3 grade levels at Mountain Ridge Intermediate School in Gerrardstown, WV. The sh...

When I worked in New York, I lived in a one-room apartment in the basement of a four-story house in an area of New Jersey called Edgewate...

I found this other picture from my show at Elizabeth Forward Middle School on my phone. There is a teacher in a khaki shirt with his hand...

For the last 20 or so years, Elizabeth Forward Middle School has been sending its 6th graders to 'A Musical Christmas Carol'. (A show I h...

Every time I have to do a blog or promote myself someway, I become very uncomfortable. I really wish I didn't have to do it. I grew up be...

You might have noticed I use this illustration a lot in my storytelling materials. It was drawn in 2005 for the cover of Storytelling Mag...

I'm often asked to talk to groups about storytelling. Today I was at Fort Ligonier, Pa. Not only do I love the town of Ligonier, because ...

It might seem an obvious point, but when I perform for children, I perform for children. I know! It sounds too simple, but children, in a...

'Discovering Gettysburg' is a book my friend Stephen Coleman and I have been working on for several years. Stephen came to me with the id...

Today I did 2 performances of 'Folktrails' at McQuistion. I love this show, because it goes from the ridiculous to the dramatic. I make t...