Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. Oh blather! Here is a song about a  bully. The tale about bullies will be coming along soon enough. Bullies tend to act like bullies for typical reasons and none are worth being a bully for.  I do not believe that bullies are thinking, feeling, or behaving well at all or they wouldn't be acting like bullies. I've known some bullies in my time and all of them did not like one person the most. Guess who that was? It was them! Yep! So, please enjoy this song that may have been musically-influenced by my time in the Pacific Northwest. And remember to do things today - like not be a bully - to make tomorrow better.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. I hope you are thinking, feeling, and behaving well. Additionally and furthermore, I hope you are simply enjoying your life! There's a lot to enjoy from the sheer beauty of all the shades of purple, the deliciousness of a crisp glass of lemonade, and the good feelings we experience when we are around the people who care about us. In this episode I will tell you the tale of Sam and how she learns to navigate the difficult waters of a new school and unexpectedly develops some coping skills that help her better manage her anxiety. Sam is pretty rad, but she just doesn't know it yet. If you enjoy my story, I highly encourage you to give a listen to an interpretation of it by my wonderful friends over at Planet Storytime Podcast. Finally, always remember to do things today to make tomorrow better. Sam certainly has and you'll hear how it worked out well for her.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. In this episode I present to you a song about how a person can maintain an endlessly positive and optimistic attitude about life and the importance of being kind to oneself. We must be as nice to ourselves as we are to the people we care about in our lives. If we go around being mean to ourselves, then we are more likely to be in a sad or anxious mood. Have I ever mentioned how it's not quite the celebration to be in those moods? Those moods come and then they go, but they last much longer if we are down or hard on ourselves. We have to be our biggest supporter no matter how old we are. Do you think that dolphins swim around telling themselves that they are not swimming as well as they should and that they should be leaping out of the water as well as their friends? I think not. Furthermore, we are not our feelings. We are people who experience many feelings - good, bad, and goofy. It's just part of our normal everyday lives.  And we shall experience these feelings to infinity. That's a lot of information to hear. One more  - please remember to always do things today to make tomorrow better.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. I hope that you are thinking well  and feeling well and behaving well. In this episode,  I will tell you the tale of the Homeroom Hero. His name is Butch and he is all about trying to help his fellow classmates learn more about each other so that they can feel better about who they are and about their friendships. Not really such a bad thing. The more we may learn about each other, the more we may learn about ourselves. So, I hope you enjoy listening to this story and always, please remember to do things today to make tomorrow better.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. In this episode is a punk rock kinda song about having to do your chores. We ALL have chores to do. Some we like; some we don't. Cleaning out the cat litter box has been on top of the charts for me for some time now. Regardless. We have to complete them or they will not get done. And that is no good, understood? So, please enjoy the distortion and dissonance on the guitars and accelerated drum tempos and remember to do things today - like chores - to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. I hope you are thinking and imagining positively and well! In this episode I present to you a tale about how it is wonderful  to let our imaginations loose like wild mustangs on the high deserts of western North America and that it is also appropriate to reign in those wild mustang thoughts and corral them into our minds when we need to focus on our studies or serious conversations. I know it may be an arduous adventure for you to imagine, but sometimes I get off track too. Like imagine if words were like the animals in the zoo and you had to go to one place to see them. AND that place to see the words is actually the dictionary! But what if you can't find the dictionary.... Anyway, that is NOT what this tale is about at all. Now let's hear what Brody and Nate are up to in today's episode. As always, remember to do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. In this episode I present to you a song  for the most important person in my life. Perhaps you can sing it to the most important person in your life on their birthday for doing that for them is likely to make tomorrow better for you...!

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. In this episode is a song to help you fall asleep. I hope you enjoy listening to it as much as I enjoyed making it, my little Baby Belles. Remember do things today to make tomorrow better.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. I hope you are prepared for another tale where you will learn something to help you think, feel, and behave a bit better. We will go from Hawaii to Minnesota and back to Hawaii. So, you'd better have your bags packed so  that you may learn the lesson of learning how to do something that you do not need to do or know now, but knowing it will certainly come in handy at later time. It's good to know things. Actually, it's wonderful to know things and to teach others these things. Here's something you already know, but I'll tell you again. Please remember to  do things today to make tomorrow better.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. In this episode, I present you the song about Grandma Go-Go! It is influenced by my very own Grandma. She would take us all everywhere to do everything so much we were always on the go go. She was teeming with so much positivity, compassion, and understanding that people loved to be around her for they liked themselves more when they were with her. I hope that you all have people like her in your life too. It is never a bad thing to try and be sweet to everyone even if they are a bit sour towards you. There will be the tale of Grandma Go-Go this year too! She inspired me to always be the best I could be.  So it goes without saying, that she would always want you to do things today to make tomorrow better.

Send us a Text Message.Hello! Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. I hope you are thinking, feeling, and behaving  well. In this episode, I will tell you all about a dragon named Brad, his sardonic sidekick Sparkles, a girl named Iris, and a kitten named Anthony. Since this tale has more words than any other I have shared thus far, I have made the decision to keep it simple. Just words and accompanying music. The lesson from this story is that we cannot always think that the way someone looks means that they will be that way. I have known some very friendly appearing people in my days who were as mean as salt is salty. So, with that being said. We must always try to not judge people, animals, or meals by the way that they look, but instead on how they behave and how the food tastes.  You know what I mean, my little spicy pinto bean? Accepting is easier to do than judging and feels so much better too. And that reminds me to remind you that we should always do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales! I hope you are thinking well into the new year! This episode tells the tale of a family in a state of change and informs us all on some of the obstacles to overcome and how not giving up but instead revising routines while preserving patience prove to be what helps attain the goal of getting a good night's sleep. No sheep were counted in the making of this story. Change is something we all encounter, so why not face it with a grin and grit as solid and sizable as a mountain?! Remember, we are the mountain and the hero in our stories. Maybe Mt. Hero will be on my new license plates next year. That will probably not happen. I hope you enjoy this story and the musical interludes and giddy interjections and please remember to do things today to make tomorrow better!*there are some helpful sleeping interventions mentioned in this episode

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales! This time of the year people of all ages tend to reflect on the year that is winding down. I recommend that people think about all the positive times and wonderful things that have happened and give gratitude and thanks to having learned and experienced new things that help you naturally become a new you. Doing this helps us think well! The messages in this song are all about making necessary changes today - why wait for a certain day to be a little braver and no longer look under your bed for monsters? Instead you may want to be looking underneath your bed for those missing socks.  The other message is to accept and embrace who you are and to live comfortably with things about you that you cannot change - you'll get those braces off your teeth and be as tall as your mom soon enough.  Being patient helps calm us all in many ways. I wish you all a Happy New Year and promise that I will share more tales in various mediums in 2024! As always, please remember to do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello.  Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. I hope you are thinking well and are becoming filled with the holiday spirit whichever holidays you may celebrate this time of the year. It is a wonderful time to let positivity warm you and your loved ones. I can recall many fond memories in my youth where I may have not have received what I wanted but I truly got so much more than I could have ever anticipated! Funny how that is, isn't it? In this episode there is a poem set to some music. Is that a song? Maybe it is. It really happened too. Perhaps it may happen again. I don't know where I'll wake up on December 23. All I know is that I am open to helping others as helping others helps us too and it is very necessary to eat and behave well to keep ourselves in harmony. Those are the messages in this episode. I really did meet the Santa Claus! You know t he S a n t a C l a u s! I can spell and I can tell  - you all about what really happened! I hope you enjoy listening as much as I enjoyed helping SC. Please remember to do things today to make tomorrow better and to give a ho ho out to all that you know know.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. In this episode I present to you a song about keeping yourself positive by only feeding yourself nourishing thoughts and feelings of optimism while not allowing yourself to nibble on negativity or snack on sour sentiments. I hope you are thinking well and if not, then take a stroll out back to the Garden of Groove for it has a cornucopia of confidence especially for you! So what are you waiting for? Go harvest yourself and your loved ones some robust refreshments so you can have a feast of flourishment! Focusing on the good in life brings forward more goodness! My goodness, my gracious, just live your life audacious!  I encourage you to please give the Garden of Groove a listen and dance, dance, dance for it has some radical rhythms!  And remember to do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello! Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales! How are you thinking? I hope you are thinking well! The tale from this episode is about a collection of clothing who will teach us all an important lesson. And that is,  that all of us have our own purpose and that, no matter where we come from,  what size we are, or what color we are, we all have to work together to help one another. I believe that you may erupt in unplanned giggles while learning new things as you listen to this story. If you  like this tale, I recommend that you to listen to a terrific interpretation of it by my friends Thomas Mitchell and Paxton Stanley over at Planet Storytime Podcast! I encourage digging on many of their glorious episodes! So, please listen with all of your might to Wilhelmina's Wondrous Wardrobe and remember to to do things today to make tomorrow better! *booger warning as the term "booger" is used once in this story. Please do not listen if this term is offensive to you.

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to a bonus episode here at LoFi Bedtime Very Tales! I hope you are thinking well and if not, then I hope that this whimsical poem provokes snickers and chortles from your brain to your belly that blast straight out with your breath! This tale is about a bad batch of beans and the havoc it wreaks/reeks - it's a pun that I am speaking you so may not understand it, but it's funny. Trust me it's sillier than a butterfly juggling cats.  Perhaps you may enjoy it as you spend your time with your family and friends over the next few days - however you choose to celebrate. It is always welcoming to make new memories and sweetly recall past pleasant remembrances we have at these times. I hope that no one in your kitchen is as brash as the head cook in this tale and that all of your vegetables are from the garden of groove. I’ll tell you all about that field of flourishment for nourishment soon enough. So onto the Sixth Grade Summer Camp Supreme Stinkout and remember, we should do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. How are you thinking? I hope you are thinking well! In today’s episode, I present to you a song about just allowing yourself to think, feel, and act carefree, silly, or goofy when the time is right. In life, we truly have to be serious at certain times. You know, like when you are taking a big test or having an important conversation with someone. Other times - and there are many - we don’t need to be quite so serious and that’s when we should work on letting all of our cares float away like a runaway balloon and try to have some laughs of liberation. After all, it’s all about timing. So, I hope the lesson from this song is helpful for you and that Rip’s words of encouragement provide you with a stupendous smile for more than a while! I hope you enjoy listening to the Nut and remember, we should do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.Hello! Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales! How are you thinking? Did you notice I didn’t ask how you were feeling?  If I know how you are thinking, then I likely know how you are feeling. We feel as we think and we act or behave as we feel. I always try to think positively, rationally, and imaginatively fueled by a magnanimous motivation that has summited mountains! We are the mountain, remember that! In this episode, I will spin the tale of The Great Tickle! The lesson from this story is that while it is admirable to want to help others feel better, we must do that in a way that no one is upset or offended. It’s not polite to make a negative comment about someone to other "someones" even if they may laugh at what is communicated and like us more for what we communicated. I used the term communicated instead of the term saying since people now communicate many different ways other than the ones I was probably using before you were born. It is also not polite to touch anyone in a way that upsets them even if it helps us or others feel better.  I think we should all grab a silly postcard, write something - in cursive - empowering on it, and then mail it - yes, mail it with a stamp that has a bird on it - to someone we care about. I think that would just be dandy! Off topic as usual. Apologies for tangents. I hope you enjoy listening to this tale and it inspires you to try to help others feel better as that is my intention with all of my creative concoctions. I hope that you are able to always think positive and well. Please remember we should do things today to make tomorrow better!

Send us a Text Message.*Just a head's up that I use the term booger in this episode description. If that term is offensive to you, please do not listen to this episode or simply skip ahead to the music. I truly do not wish to offend anyone, animals, or inanimate objects.  Hello. Welcome to LoFi Bedtime Very Tales. This is a boo!(nus) episode that is just some pumpkin carving music I came up with. Really just a riff with some frosting on it. Perhaps you can listen to it while you carve up a pumpkin or possibly eight of them. If you can carve up one whole pumpkin while listening to this music once, perhaps you should find a pumpkin carving competition, enter it, and then win it! When you are cleaning out the insides of the pumpkin, remember to save the seeds to roast them with some spicy seasoning cause that’s where it’s at! I think this song has about seventeen excellent seconds in it. They are just not all in a row. The seventeen seconds are interspersed throughout the song. Perhaps you will hear them. If this song isn’t your bag, then maybe you should listen to my other boo-nus episode. It’s more of a dance song and it has the word booger in it if that’s something you’re more into. You know I always say, boogers are like arguments or more like battles. So, boogers and battles. You have to know when to pick ‘em for you never know what may happen and you may end up with more than you handle. Enough nonsense. Have the Halloween of your life by having more fun than you can imagine, be safe, and remember to do things today to make tomorrow better!