This year, Halloween and Diwali fall so close together. I am ashamed to admit that I never heard about Diwali until I became a storyteller. 

I was invited to tell holiday stories at a school in Foxboro. The person hiring…

I'm thrilled to announce that “The Student and The Dissident” has just been published in The Jewish Literary Journal 

An excerpt from THE COUNCIL OF WISE WOMEN, the story is about Rabbi Yohan Abrahms' secret wife…  Do keep in mind…

It was the last day at the Park Avenue School in Cranston before the holiday break. 
They'd asked, “Do you have a multicultural holiday program that will touch all the bases, but won't offend anyone?”

My answer, “Why, of course!”

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Every year, when he was growing up, my Dad had fish for Thanksgiving dinner.

We never knew why, until one day…
– Mark

Whenever I prep for a Halloween gig, I go back and listen to my first live concert “album”. It Was a Dark and Stormy Night was recorded on Halloween years ago at the Knotty Oak Middle School. I had the…

https://markbinderbooks.com/single/82903/the-olive-orchard

Soon coming to Spotify and many other sites. This is a free/pay what you…

There's a Succah Contest every year in the village of Chelm, and every year Reb Cantor the Merchant wins. Until…

Greetings!

While January 1is the official calendar start, school starts in September, so I hope you've had a wonderful beginning…

I wrote “The Shaggy Dog's Tale” when I was collecting stories for THE BED TIME STORY BOOK. It didn't take long to write, but it takes a while to tell. It's the sort of story children enjoy, and parents… well…

April 1, Providence, RI

The afternoon skies went dark as an estimated 14,653 bats swarmed above the State Capital building in Providence, RI.

“At first it looked cool,” said Melford Glum, a tourist visiting the Ocean State from Shrieve,…