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Shasta. - [May 20, 2025 | New Book Release - Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=391) - [March 1, 2024 | Stories to be told - Rotary Club of Bend](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=384) - Mar 01, 2024 7:00 AM Heather McNeil, storyteller extraordinaire https://mtbachelorrotary.org/Speakers/2c86a96a-f487-428d-8e94-146922f505dd - [Coming in 2025: Read Me a Tree, Rhyme Me a Bee: Nature Books and Activities at Storytime](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=365) - [Monthly storytimes at Mudpies and Lullabies Preschool](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=361) - [December, 2023, Winter Solstice storytelling at Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=359) - [December, 2023, holiday stories for PEO Chapter AI and EA](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=357) - [October 15-17, 2021 |  Forest Storytelling Festival.  Online.](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=303) - October 15-17, 2021. Forest Storytelling Festival. Online. https://www.clallamstorypeople.org/storytelling-festival/ - [June 21, 2021 | Celtic Stories. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bend, OR](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=301) - [January 24, 2021 | The Power of Story. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, Bend, OR](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=299) - [February 21, 2020, "Around the Fire: A Storytelling Concert of Warmth and Wit,"](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=288) - February 21, 2020, "Around the Fire: A Storytelling Concert of Warmth and Wit," Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Central Oregon. - [Refiring!](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=274) - The Queen is dead. Long live the Queen. When I first heard or read that phrase I could not find the sense in it. If the Queen is dead, then how could she live long? But somewhere along the way, either reading or watching a movie about British royalty, I understood. The old queen has - [10-30-2019 | Stories to Rattle Your Bones](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=245) - October 30, 2019. “Stories to Rattle Your Bones.” Storytelling at Sunriver Library and Downtown Bend Library, Deschutes Public Library - [5-8-2020 | Early Literacy Workshop](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=249) - May 8, 2020. Early Literacy Workshop, Chemeketa Regional Library Service - [The Book Shelf, or, Why Reading Aloud Really, Really Matters](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=181) - I am sitting in my daughter's room, staring at the book shelf. The room is organized, colorful and quiet, as are the books, a perfect reflection of her personality and charm. (Her godmother described her as "a quiet spirit with the eye of a tiger.") On the top of the shelf are toys from Vietnam, - [I Say Airplane, You Say](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=179) - It was storytime. Specifically, it was storytime for toddlers. I had a room full of curious, energetic 18-16 months-old children with their care givers, approximately 60 total. The music of Laurie Berkner was playing to get them in the mood for stories about cats. "The cat came back/We thought he was a goner...." Sounds morbid, - [It's Snowing...Books!](https://heathermcneilstories.com/?p=177) - It's a snow day here in central Oregon. And I mean a SNOW day. The prediction of 8-12 inches was achieved hours ago, and it's still snowing. A lot. Constantly. I shoveled at least two feet of off the deck and within an hour it was covered with another 4". 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