While at the tourist office in Larnaca, Cyprus the other day, I found an unexpected surprise. Cyprus offers some amazing tours and routes. I’ve been following in Aphrodite by following the Aphrodite Cultural Route. There is also an agricultural route, wine route and [...]
Malia Ferrer cuenta Kamishibai en casa a su nietos. I didn’t grow up with extended family around. I grew up in one of the first boxy subdivisions carved out of the cornfields of East Boulder, Colorado. There were no buses [...]
Malia Ferrer and I presented another Kamishibai for Peace with creative writing workshop recently at the San José obrador Catholic Church in Rodó, Uruguay. We presented to two groups of children’s catechism classes. The morning was with younger children, and the afternoon [...]
Hermann Werner. (1816-1905) The Grandma Effect I’m not a grandma yet, but as I now engage in my third stage of life and look to healthy aging, I’m looking forward to it. I am a grandmother in a way already. [...]
Oral Stories Are Yoga Because They Develop Concentration More than 50 high-energy and loud fourth-graders assembled in the cafeteria for Malia Ferrer and I’s Kamishibai for Peace, meditation and creative writing session.We had travelled to a school on the margins of Montevideo. It [...]
Pointing to a picture makes it easy to become an oral storyteller using traditional folklore. The Storytime Yoga® Kids Yoga Story Kits use traditional Japanese Kamishibai storytelling cards, like this one from the Inuit, Raven Brings the Light. My [...]
