The Dragons are headed out for the Summer Reading Puppet Shows!

It is time to start the Summer Reading Puppet shows. I am so excited! I head up to Faith and Lemmon SD to kick off my summer. The Summer Reading Theme this year is “Build a Better World” so my puppet show is “Quest for the Junkyard Dragon”. It is a revision of a show from long ago but it …

Tis May! Tis May!

Happy May Day! May 1st has always been the most special of days. Or at least in the top ten. It is the-really-for-sure-beginning of Spring. Flowers are venturing out helping us shake off the winter blues. When I was a kid there was a very strange piece of equipment on the playground. 364 days of the year it was a …

Memories of our China Trip

I was going over the photos of our trip to China in December of last year.  Dick worked with students at Concordia and I helped. A puppet I made there out of a sock and I also got to work with the First graders.  This students were very curious about the puppet’s name.  They came up with some good ones …

Booking underway for Dragons Puppets

The Dragons are getting ready to hit the road! Every summer Dragons Are Too Seldom Puppets( that’s me and a whole lot of my puppet friends) tours public libraries throughout the United States. This year we will be in South Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, Colorado and New Mexico.  Every Year the libraries have a Summer Reading Theme.  This year the theme …

Then and Now

I am going to try to create a record of the Dragons on the road both then and now. Now we are on our way to Issaquah WA for a family reunion and then on to the Oregon Coast. T Turtle came along. It would appear that Coeur d’ Alene Lake was his old stopping grounds. He says he was …

It is amazing to see the Hills recover

It has been a couple of weeks since the Black Hills were hit by too much snow, unbelievable winds topping 70 miles an hour, loss of livestock and in some cases homes. Slowly we have dug out. The broken trees and limbs were everywhere and will be for years to come. But chain saws, wood chippers and hours of back …

A poem I need to read-maybe weekly

My grandmother lived to be 99.  She lived in her own apartment until three months before she died.  Every time my sister, Claire, and I would visit, we would see quotes and wise sayings stuck up with scotch tape all over the apartment.  When she died, my mother took many of the quotes and put them inside cupboards and in …