when i first met my niece savannah, she was only a few months old.

i spent most of that visit rocking her in the rocking chair or walking her around the living room – while telling her story after story after story.

i told her the story of the invention of organization, the story of queen savannah and her pony named mustard, the story of the bluebird of happiness, and so many other stories.

there is a reason that we read stories to children, especially bedtime stories, and it is not entirely about the stories.

if i close my eyes, i can feel savannah’s little head nestled on my shoulder when she was sleepy, or see her big blue eyes staring at me in wonder when she was awake, as my words circled in the air around us.

her mother and father often heard me telling stories – they would laugh from time to time, or marvel at how i kept going and going and going like the energizer bunny – but it felt like a sweet experience between just the two of us.

i know it seems like the story club is about stories, and it is, but it is also my way of creating that same experience for you.

it’s about reminding you of the power of the story, when shared between you and your children, to create a container for an intimate experience that bonds you.

the story club is a way to bring more creativity into your life, even when the days are long and busy.

i created the story club because i wanted you to have a way to receive new stories regularly, no time or effort required.

there is something special about old favorites, about reading the same stories over and over and over. there is also something special about new stories, and the creativity and imagination they can spark in the reader/listener.

sometimes there is a deeper meaning to the stories, but often they are the simple stories that children tell. the stories that go “and then and then and then” and end unexpectedly.

but isn’t that just like life? something happens and then something else happens and then something else happens. we are the ones applying meaning to all of it.

the story club is a way to create a unique shared experience between you and your child.

you won’t find the story club stories in stores.

you can’t go to the library and check them out.

there will be other people in the world that are reading them, but they will feel more like stories that are just between you.

and maybe someday you will tell me about your child.

and then someday they will find themselves in a story.