Sam PayneMar 231 minHanging on. These days, many of us are working from home, and self-isolating. This is certainly true of me and my family. My home office has become Apple Seed Central. S...
Sam PayneNov 1, 20196 minVoicesFrom time to time, I join Lisa Valentine Clark and Ritchie T on The Lisa Show, the popular daily morning program produced by BYUradio. My visit usually consi...
Sam PayneNov 19, 20186 minWhen I Was One and TwentyThis blog post was written as an article requested by the Florida Storytelling Association. I'm very happy to be featured as part of their upcoming festival,...
Sam PayneOct 9, 20183 minLiving Room DreamMy kids used to talk about their dreams at the breakfast table. I always thought, listening to them talk about their dreams, that the stuff they read spilled...
Sam PayneOct 1, 20173 minQ&A with the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival.Sam enjoyed the great honor of being among the featured tellers at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival 2017. TImpanogos is one of the largest and most popul...
Sam PayneSep 15, 20173 minBeginnings for Mr. and Mrs. PayneSkyler got married. My oldest son. That was a big thing for me to get my head around. And it also meant choosing a wedding gift. And as I thought and thought...
Sam PayneApr 13, 20173 minIt Doesn't Take MuchIt’s remarkable how little coaxing a memory needs before it floods your brain as a full-fledged story – bringing back to you a living, breathing part of your...
Sam PayneMar 1, 20173 minBurritos and StoriesThe Weber Storytelling Festival has been an institution in Ogden, Utah, for more than two decades. Held over three days, just as February becomes March each ...
Sam PayneJan 27, 20172 minFinding Yourself in the Stories you HearIn the studio today, the Apple Seed team worked on an episode featuring stories that bring back particular memories for team members. Sharing a version of “T...
Sam PayneMay 11, 20162 minStory KeepersThis Spring saw us at the Vernal Storytelling Festival, run so well by Aaryn Birchell and her team. The festival features public tellings in the auditorium o...
Sam PayneApr 9, 20163 minThings that Go AwayNot long ago, for an Apple Seed episode about college stories, I found myself writing a piece about Mark Henderson, who was responsible for awarding me with ...
Sam PayneMar 12, 20163 minOur Love is Here to StayWay back in my early, early days of being a band leader, I had a jazz quintet that got a gig at the beautiful OC Tanner Amphitheater, at the mouth of Zion Na...
Sam PayneJan 16, 20167 minMr. BatemanEvery grade at Alpine Elementary School prepared all year for a Spring program. On some April evening, all the kids in any given grade would file out onto th...
Sam PayneNov 1, 20154 minGordon the BabysitterWhen I was a kid, my folks would sometimes get the older kid next door to babysit my little brother and me. My brother’s name was Joe, and we shared a bunk b...
Sam PayneNov 3, 20144 minFirst KissSummertime, I suppose, is good for remembering a lot of things – the way the world slows down in summer, the taste of ripe apricots, the glory of fireworks a...
Sam PayneJul 2, 20142 minThe Ballad of Levi StewartThese lyrics were written at the request of Clive Romney -- a song setting of the story of Levi Stewart, who lost a wife and some children to a fire in the f...
Sam PayneJun 16, 20144 minPirate FieldWhen I was a kid, and maybe when you were too, my brother Joe and I pretended to be all sorts of heroic-sized things we weren’t – or might be somewhere down ...