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

We never knew why, until one day…
– Mark

Years ago, I was invited to tell holiday stories at a school in Foxboro. The person hiring me asked if I had a story for Diwali. Despite the fact that it's celebrated by more than a billion people, I'd never…

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,…