Welcome to the Campfire

Welcome! I  hope you’ll find something here to warm your imagination and spirit, and spark some thoughts. What I  really hope is that you’ll ‘add a log to the fire,’ by way of… Read More →

Family Reading and Storytelling Legacy Continued

Happy Happy!  My granddaughters are happy! Their grandmother is happy!  Their great-grandmother is happy! I’m happy! Following up on my previous Reading Legacy post- Cartoonist/Ilustrator and great friend Peter Menice (Petermenice.com) ‘translated’ the… Read More →

New Years Resolutions Inuit Style

New Years Resolutions? Not So Fast! Try Some Karrtsiluni First. (This is a repost from last year- so in reflection and moving forward….) It’s time to make some New Years resolutions.  Or is it? Maybe… Read More →

Living Treasure and the Fat Wood Fairy

Just in time for the really first cold snap of the season, the Fat Wood Fairy left a burlap sack on our porch. One of the reasons I’m known as “One Match” is… Read More →

A Family Reading Legacy and an Exciting Collaboration

Although my somewhat dazed expression in this photo from 1950 may not reflect it, I’ve had a lifelong love of reading, which I attribute in no small part to my mother’s lifelong love… Read More →

A Storyteller’s Secrets( except they’re not secret)

I’ve spend the past few days getting ready to teach a storytelling workshop up in the Four Corners area.  At the same time I’ve had a couple of folks contact me in the… Read More →

The Lost Half Hour

“Time as a stuff can be wasted,” Carl Sandburg reminded us in The People, Yes, as if most of us didn’t have some direct experience of just such a lesson. But the time… Read More →

Three Keys and Two Fools-One of Who Was Me.

One spring evening, as people were out strolling, they saw Mullah Nasruddin on his hands and knees under a lamppost searching frantically for something or other. “I’ve lost my keys” replied Mullah, when… Read More →

The Onion Seller, The Basket Maker and an Ambassador of Kindness

A few days ago, after a visit to Ernest Thompson Seton’s Santa Fe homestead, now in the wonderful hands and hearts of The Academy for the Love of Learning(http://www.aloveoflearning.org/ I found myself browsing… Read More →

Reading Unplugged

Thank you cartoonist  Shannon Wheeler for generous permission to reproduce this image which appears on this month’s issue of Funny Times.  It struck a chord.  As I write I’m looking at a big… Read More →