Sam Payne
Hatching Plans
Every week, Sam posts in "The Radio Family Journal," a collection of tiny little personal stories broadcast on The Apple Seed. Here's the...
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Sam Payne
- Jul 16, 2020
- 4 min
The Faithful Shepherd
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,...
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Sam Payne
- Jun 10, 2020
- 3 min
Frostie Root Beer
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 –...
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Sam Payne
- May 15, 2020
- 4 min
Bella's Hats
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...
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Sam Payne
- Apr 4, 2020
- 1 min
Move These Little Ones
On Sam's show, "The Apple Seed" (broadcasting just about every day from BYUradio, and filled with stories for you and your family), great...
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Sam Payne
- Mar 23, 2020
- 1 min
Hanging 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...
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Sam Payne
- Nov 1, 2019
- 6 min
Voices
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...
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Sam Payne
- Nov 19, 2018
- 6 min
When I Was One and Twenty
This blog post was written as an article requested by the Florida Storytelling Association. I'm very happy to be featured as part of...
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Sam Payne
- Oct 9, 2018
- 3 min
Living Room Dream
My kids used to talk about their dreams at the breakfast table. I always thought, listening to them talk about their dreams, that the...
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Sam Payne
- Oct 1, 2017
- 3 min
Q&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...
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Sam Payne
- Sep 15, 2017
- 3 min
Beginnings for Mr. and Mrs. Payne
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...
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Sam Payne
- Apr 13, 2017
- 3 min
It Doesn't Take Much
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,...
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Sam Payne
- Mar 1, 2017
- 3 min
Burritos and Stories
The Weber Storytelling Festival has been an institution in Ogden, Utah, for more than two decades. Held over three days, just as February...
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Sam Payne
- Jan 27, 2017
- 2 min
Finding Yourself in the Stories you Hear
In the studio today, the Apple Seed team worked on an episode featuring stories that bring back particular memories for team members....
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Sam Payne
- May 11, 2016
- 2 min
Story Keepers
This Spring saw us at the Vernal Storytelling Festival, run so well by Aaryn Birchell and her team. The festival features public tellings...
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Sam Payne
- Apr 9, 2016
- 3 min
Things that Go Away
Not long ago, for an Apple Seed episode about college stories, I found myself writing a piece about Mark Henderson, who was responsible...
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Sam Payne
- Mar 12, 2016
- 3 min
Our Love is Here to Stay
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...
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Sam Payne
- Jan 16, 2016
- 7 min
Mr. Bateman
Every grade at Alpine Elementary School prepared all year for a Spring program. On some April evening, all the kids in any given grade...
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Sam Payne
- Nov 1, 2015
- 4 min
Gordon the Babysitter
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,...
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Sam Payne
- Nov 3, 2014
- 4 min
First Kiss
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...
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