Figure Skating Theater Team Dine to Donate A Dine to Donate Fundraising night will be held Tuesday, January 16th at the Mount Pleasant Texas Roadhouse from 3 p.m. – 10 p.m. During that evening, 10% of the restaurant’s profits from food sales will go to the Journey into Imagination Theater Team. Diners who would like…
If I were to trace my interest in puppetry to one single moment, it might be around the time that Elijah and I recorded a couple of video skits with his Among Us plushies. “Engineer News,” as we ultimately called it, was also inspired a lot by “Villager News,” a series of YouTube videos that…
As I’ve been following the news about Trump possibly being indicted, I can’t help but miss being able to comment about it to my son, Josh. I don’t think either of us considered ourselves political, but we found amusement by following the stories about Trump when he was president. This is just one example of…
For our video project in February, I’d like to create an anthology of videos produced by different amateur puppeteers from around the globe. The videos would all tie back to a common theme but could still tell a variety of different stories. For example, in October I watched a group of videos which had been…
I resolved this year that I would try to get back into the habit by posting a new post on my blog every day. I’m already 4 days into the new year, and I still haven’t even written anything. Part of the problem, I think, is that I often have a lot of little ideas…
This week, I’ve enjoyed reading the junior novelization version of “The Empire Strikes Back” because I get to try to do all of the different voices of the characters I grew up with, like Han Solo, Luke Skywalker, and Darth Vader. They’re not perfect, and I’m not even sure if Elijah can tell that I’m…
. Lately, I’ve been thinking about using an Amazon gift card I got for Father’s Day to buy a full body, professional styled puppet. This idea came to me last week at the Zoo while we were looking through the gift shops. How did I go from zebras and giraffes to puppets, you might ask?…
Thinking of my dad, on Father’s Day. I still carry with me all of the helpful nuggets of wisdom he shared with me throughout my life, such as always bring a jacket (I keep at least three in my car), and that we make decisions, not mistakes. He would take my sister and I fishing,…
In March 2019 when the original tumor was removed from Josh’s brain, I naively thought that he would be healthy again after a few weeks of recovery and some physical therapy. I thought that the brain tumor was just a bump on the road, and that we would continue on with life once it was…
I have been having strange, recurring dreams in which I’ve moved into a large Victorian style house. In past dreams, I would venture into different rooms of the house, but there are certain areas that I don’t enter because I somehow know that they are haunted. I think that I had a dream about living…
