I laughed a number of times when I read Sarah Schmelling's McSweeney's piece Mom Takes Children's Songs Literally .  Who among u...

My mom sent me this article from The Guardian : Singing to Children May Help Development of Language Skills , by Amelia Hill As Daniel Dwase...

I just posted a new song over at A Storytelling of Crows . It's called "Marie in the Garden," and it's a simple game that ...

The first song on Natalie Merchant's album Leave Your Sleep is Nursery Rhyme of Innocence and Experience , by Charles Causley, a title ...

My favorite Duran Duran song is "Secret Oktober" which was the B side of the single "Union of the Snake," back when sing...

[Note to those reading this in RSS readers: this is the real blog post.] Five years ago, I started a storytelling blog. My daughter was no...

Next week's blogging will be rather quiet as the House of Glee prepares for the final days of Advent leading up to Christmas. I'll s...

Happy December! Jack Frost arrived this morning and reminded me that it's probably too late to weed my neglected garden. By mid-day, the...

We finally have winners of the Children's Book Sequels contest ! The fabulous Minh Le and I will announce them next week, along with ho...

The Unnecessary Children's Book Sequels That Never Were contest runs until midnight (Eastern Standard Time) of April 10, 2009. Lucia lo...

Cloudscome of a wrung sponge always has such stunning photographs to go with her poems. In her honor, I took a photo of my white icicle cur...

Back in 1993, before Heather Kropf had recorded her first album and I had no musical aspirations beyond wistfully wishing I could sing and ...

Happy Valentine's Day! As I said in last year's post , I try to use this month to catch up on correspondence, as St. Valentine was a...

I recently started a satellite blog called A Storytelling of Crows . As of now, I plan for it to be primarily a site for me to share audio ...

Many thanks to Sam Riddleburger and Cece Bell for their pumpkin carving tutorial . Bede used a dry-wall saw to carve this jack-'o-lanter...

Greetings from Santa Fe, New Mexico! The time is passing quickly. I've had two jam sessions with the friend of my mom who lent me one of...

A couple of weeks ago, Bede took Lucia to the park to throw boomerangs. Bede's first (and favorite) boomerang immediately got gobbled up...

In relation to the Padstow "'Obby 'Oss" May Day song I blogged yesterday , here are the basic guitar chords as I've fi...

'Obby 'Oss photo by Ennor Happy May Day! One of the biggest May Day festivals can be found in Padstow, Cornwall. It's called ...

Here is my iMix (i.e. music mix posted on iTunes) for my Advent and Christmas music compilation . Newly included is People Look East , sung ...