One of my mentors once told me that traveling was nice – but your hometown is your bread and butter.  I know what he meant, especially when I do travel overnight away from my home.  This is one of those weeks – another extremely busy week – where I am heading to New Hampshire for a block of shows Thursday going into Friday.  While I’d rather be home, if I have to travel I am glad I’ll be in New Hampshire, one of the more beautiful states.  That will be closing out my week – before that I will be in Brockton for the start of a series of a three week set of shows!  Come on out to see me!

The second week of Preschool Building Stories in Kingston went much better than the first!  I am looking forward to continuing the workshop there this week.  Pembroke Library had another great turnout and we enter the third week there where we will be making puppets!  Let’s keep our fingers crossed for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Monday: Smith Mills Day Nursery @ 10:00am
• Monday: Ridgehill School Teacher Training @ 6:30pm
• Tuesday: Smith Mills Day Nursery @ 10:00am
• Wednesday: Brockton Library @ 10:30am
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Puppets!
• Wednesday: Third Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Making Puppets!
• Thursday: Bright Horizons @10:00/10:30am
• Friday: Greenfield Elementary School @ 9:15am
• Friday: Triumph Head Start @ 2:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Dartmouth
2. Norwell
3. Brockton
4. Kingston
5. Pembroke
6. Bedford, NH
7. Greenfield, NH
8. Taunton

While the snow is slowly disappearing there is still plenty of time to get out there to have a blast!  This is one of my Wife’s favorite cartoons of mine.

This was taken last week after my show in Quincy – and it made me chuckle.  This winter has certainly been quite a doozy – but let’s all remember, Spring is right around the corner!

What a wonderful and amazing event!  What I really liked was seeing all of the characters walking around – straight from the pages of some of our favorite literature!  Paddington was there, Stelleluna was hanging around, Curious George was there and even some of the Wild Things were having a rumpus!  It was a great time!  II even had a couple of the patrons tell me after that I was the “best part” of the event – which is a huge compliment seeing as my competition was the very talented children’s librarian staff and the characters mentioned above!  And yes, if you look at the picture above you can see my daughter and son (sitting together) in the front row.

I had a blast this weekend at not only the Storybook Breakfast (pics to follow tomorrow on here – or already posted on my FB page!) where I was able to shake the hands of Curious George, Stelleluna, Paddington Bear, and Carol from Where the Wild Things Are.  Then, on Sunday I took my daughter to Maple Sunday at the Science Center in Norwell, and after we went sledding.  My daughter is enjoying the outdoors more and more!  Dream come true!

Since the first week of Preschool Building Stories in Kingston had a snafu – we are starting the first week round again this week!  So, come on out and enjoy yourself as we explore telling stories in a new and fun way!  Pembroke Library had a great turnout and we enter the second week there.  Let’s keep our fingers crossed for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Lil’ Munchkins Day Care and Preschool @ 10:00/10:30am
• Tuesday: Eldredge Library @ 4:00pm
• Tuesday: Jonathan Bourne Library @ 6:30pm
• Wednesday: Barret Russell School @ 9:15/10:00am
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: Second Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Puppets!
• Thursday: Stepping Stones Preschool @ 10:00am
• Friday: Leddy Preschool @ 6:30pm
• Saturday: Early Childhood Fair at the Kingston Elementary School @ 11:00am
• Saturday: Attleboro Arts Museum @ 2:00pm

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Scituate
2. Chatham
3. Bourne
4. Brockton
5. Kingston
6. Pembroke
7. Hanover
8. Taunton
9. Kingston (again!)
10. Attleboro

March?  It doesn’t look like March!  We need a lot of sunny days in order to clean things up for the first day of Spring in just a few weeks!  Besides that, I hope everyone is doing well and staying safe.  My visit to Sherborn was a huge success and the crowd there was fantastic!  I will be doing a bit of traveling once again this week – this time to Winchester on Tuesday.  I really enjoy going to the Winchester Library as I have noticed a couple of return audience members.  I love it when I start to see familiar faces!

We are starting up the newest round of Preschool Building Stories at both the Kingston and Pembroke Libraries!  Hingham was a huge and fantastic success with many families joining us each week – hopefully we’ll end with even more people joining the fun in Kingston and Pembroke.  Let’s cross our fingers for great weather!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Tuesday: Winchester Library @ 3:30pm
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Kingston Library at 2:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Wednesday: First Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Pembroke Library at 4:00pm – This week: Using Voices and Sound Effects!
• Friday: Montclair Elementarty School @ 9:00am
• Friday: L.B. Merrill School @ 7:15pm
• Saturday: Storybook Breakfast at Plymouth South High School @ 10:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Winchester
2. Kingston
3. Pembroke
4. Quincy
5. Raynham
6. Plymouth

Yes, this is the kind of kid I was.

I get to entertain at my daughter’s school this week – one of the major perks of being a storyteller is that you can visit your child’s school and make the kids laugh – and then, by default, you’ve made your kid even cooler than she already is!  I am also heading to Sherborn this week.  While this is quite the ride, I really don’t mind the traveling, as long as it’s not in the deep snow!

We are wrapping up the latest round of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library!  We had quite the turnout for vacation week – which was awesome – and hopefully we’ll end with even more people joining the fun.  Hopefully we will have only really nice days this week – so join us for the fantastic finale!

Here is this week’s schedule:

• Wednesday: Carver Elementary School – Kindergarten @ 9:30am
• Wednesday: Final Week of Preschool Building Stories at the Hingham Library at 3:30pm – This week: Wordless Picture Books!
• Wednesday: Teacher Training at 6:30pm for CNK: The Perfect Circle
• Thursday: Sherborn Library @ 3:30pm
• Friday: West End Day Nursery @9:30/10:00am

As always, the Preschool Building Stories Workshops and Library shows are open to the public and all are welcome to join whether you have come to earlier session or not! Please check the Upcoming Shows page for more information on all of these shows.

Places I will be visiting this week:

1. Carver
2. Hingham
3. Pembroke
4. Sherborn
5. New Bedford

A shot from this past summer when I had a corn on the cob that was having an inner struggle to be orderly or just let it’s freak flag fly!