Every week, Sam posts in "The Radio Family Journal," a collection of tiny little personal stories broadcast on The Apple Seed. Here's the...

My dad was never a guy who was super interested in stuff. Having stuff, I mean. Except for a pretty dense collection of fine guitars,...

When I was a kid, whenever I got a quarter I’d ride my bike the mile to the little town grocery store and I’d buy a bottle of the best –...

I don’t know why I even said yes to this, but when I was sixteen years old, a lady down the street asked if I’d come and help her with a...

On Sam's show, "The Apple Seed" (broadcasting just about every day from BYUradio, and filled with stories for you and your family), great...

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...

From time to time, I join Lisa Valentine Clark and Ritchie T on The Lisa Show, the popular daily morning program produced by BYUradio. My...

This blog post was written as an article requested by the Florida Storytelling Association. I'm very happy to be featured as part of...

My kids used to talk about their dreams at the breakfast table. I always thought, listening to them talk about their dreams, that the...

Sam enjoyed the great honor of being among the featured tellers at the Timpanogos Storytelling Festival 2017. TImpanogos is one of the...

Skyler 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...

It’s remarkable how little coaxing a memory needs before it floods your brain as a full-fledged story – bringing back to you a living,...

The Weber Storytelling Festival has been an institution in Ogden, Utah, for more than two decades. Held over three days, just as February...

In the studio today, the Apple Seed team worked on an episode featuring stories that bring back particular memories for team members....

This Spring saw us at the Vernal Storytelling Festival, run so well by Aaryn Birchell and her team. The festival features public tellings...

Not long ago, for an Apple Seed episode about college stories, I found myself writing a piece about Mark Henderson, who was responsible...

Way 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...

Every grade at Alpine Elementary School prepared all year for a Spring program. On some April evening, all the kids in any given grade...

When 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,...

Summertime, I suppose, is good for remembering a lot of things – the way the world slows down in summer, the taste of ripe apricots, the...