When you’re sitting in class, There’s a tickle in your nose Then you let out a sneeze and it finally explodes You look down at your hand, It’s all covered with that goo, Don’t wipe it anywhere, You know what to do! You gotta wash your hands (lávate las manos) Wash your hands (lávate las [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Wash Your Hands (lávate!) – free download!
Posted in childhood safety, music, performing for children, School culture, Schools, singer/songwriter, Song, Teachers and teaching, tagged Bill Harley song on September 24, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Honoring Failure
Posted in Children, performing for children, School culture, Schools, Teachers and teaching, tagged fear of failure, mistakes, performance, storytelling on September 22, 2009 | 16 Comments »
Honoring Failure A couple of years ago I was doing a show for a primary grade audience at an elementary school. After an introductory song, I took a good look at the audience, decided on a particular story and launched into the telling. A minute and a half into the story, I realized I had [...]
NPR piece tonight
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged NPR commentary on September 14, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Tonight on National Public Radio, All Things Considered is playing a story about my learning experience with the National Anthem at a minor league ball game (yay, McCoy Stadium and the Pawsox!). You can listen tonight during the show (not sure which segment, sorry..) or go here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112484915. Please comment and spread it around – [...]
Ducks, sheep, and dogs
Posted in Life lessons, tagged herding, sheep dogs on September 12, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Last week, after finishing up at the Timpanogos Storytelling festival in Orem, Utah, Debbie and I went to the Soldier Hollow Classic International Sheep Dog Championship at a former Olympic site in Heber Valley, Utah. It was amazing, and a reminder that the relationship between dogs and humans goes way, way back. There were water [...]
Is that a true story?
Posted in Fiction, Story, storytelling, tagged meaning, true story, truth on September 6, 2009 | 5 Comments »
“What’s the use of stories that aren’t even true?” Those words were written by Salman Rushdie, spoken by the character Haroun in Rushdie’s book Haroun and the Sea of Stories. Haroun is a boy frustrated with, disappointed by, and angry at his storyteller father after Haroun’s mother walks out on them. Rushdie’s book is, to [...]
It really isn’t about me – not tonight
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged NPR commentary on September 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Not to worry – I’m not doing the four post a day thing. But.. Just got a message from my producer at NPR that a news item bumped my piece (What’s that about? What do they think this is, a news show or something?) But so many people had already commented they’re leaving it up [...]
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