The Book Launch Bash Was a Blast!
Kathy Garr, Jiro Tomiyama, Tina Tomiyama, Anna Patton, Ashton Cynthia Clarke, Jill Vanderweit, Miyo Yamauchi (L to R) We did it! We published our first book, “The Storytelling Bistro,” at the end of 2022. It wasn’t easy…to be quite honest. Some people say...
How To Be Japanese — Miyo-Mazing
by Tina Tomiyama, with help from Ashton Cynthia Clarke, Anna Ziss-Patton and Aprille Isham Oh, StoryMasters! Like all of you, I’ve relished Miyo Yamauchi’s stories, doled out to us once every few months on a Zoom screen—but who could have imagined the tremendous...
Lee Amatangelo at SAC’s Historical Stories
by Ashton Cynthia Clarke I Zoom’ed in to SAC’s Historical Stories show on April 20 to learn more about the genre. Perhaps this was an area into which I might expand. Watching Lee Amatangelo tell “The Day the Sun Rose Twice,” I felt like I was sitting at the feet of a...
A Little Bit of Heaven
By Tina Tomiyama On a brilliant Saturday afternoon in March, amidst flowers and trees, birdsong and cheerful chatter, 20 exhilarated guests assembled in a spacious back patio in View Park, CA. They were the lucky ones who’d gotten seats for a rare storytelling concert...
Heartbreaker
I joined Toastmasters to improve on my public speaking skills and to meet people. I was lonely, having recently moved to a new neighborhood. The Toastmasters meetings gave me somewhere to go. I made friends with one of the members, Jennifer, who was super-kind....About StoryMasters
StoryMasters is an advanced Toastmasters club dedicated to the art of storytelling.
We meet every 2nd Sunday @ 3-5PM via Zoom.