https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops daily 0.75 2025-10-14 https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/aidp0k8gsgev0tr6wdqmrakg9qp6jm-9xm4j-mxp3s-shrwe-xxz8w-n3jg6 monthly 0.5 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/c8d46271-4d32-4abd-a6b8-d9ee37beae1b/1987+strawberry+family+photo.jpg Honey Drops - BZ Smith Returns to Strawberry: A Heartfelt Revival  - Make it stand out “I’ll be watching for your face in the crowd this Sunday morning!” https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/aidp0k8gsgev0tr6wdqmrakg9qp6jm-9xm4j-mxp3s-shrwe-xxz8w monthly 0.5 2025-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/2b4e4e17-3a6c-496a-bba8-8efce3f22b7d/BZ.jpg Honey Drops - It takes a hive to make the honey and a village to raise a child… - Make it stand out Until next time, keep buzzing and pollinating! https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/aidp0k8gsgev0tr6wdqmrakg9qp6jm-9xm4j-mxp3s-shrwe monthly 0.5 2025-04-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/d34f4c3d-e792-486d-af98-3c7cc94208bf/Rane.jpeg Honey Drops - “Rane” Drops keep falling on my head - Make it stand out Great Nephew Rane Wilson compiling all of the voices and stories of the Wyandotte people https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/where-does-a-tellers-tale-begin monthly 0.5 2025-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/e4395247-4fb8-40e9-97c6-fe9ea1e1991e/IMG_0833.jpeg Honey Drops - Where Does A Teller’s Tale Begin? - Make it stand out Lisette and long time storytelling mentor and VERY DEAR FRIEND, BZ Smith chipping away at one of many projects! https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/aidp0k8gsgev0tr6wdqmrakg9qp6jm-9xm4j-mxp3s monthly 0.5 2025-04-22 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/11aef1f9-e2a5-41ea-a2ec-356a59ef5b8f/Scraping+tool.jpg Honey Drops - Well, Tan my Hide and call me BZ! - Make it stand out The meticulously designed and cut hide scraping tool made from bone. 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At facebook, instead of the grocery store (from logan ainger, summerville High grad)… https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/a-lifetime-of-stories monthly 0.5 2023-03-27 https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/hugs-in-the-grocery-store monthly 0.5 2021-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1615394452333-XRYPLTJWSU2XBRLVV244/BZ_1981_StoryPic_Soulsbyville_SMALL_CarrotSeed.jpg Honey Drops - Hugs in the Grocery Store… TELLING “THE CARROT SEED” AT SOULSBYVILLE ELEMENTARY IN 1981 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1615394323047-RP3U7LEAJS8KE404LAZL/BZ_Storytelling_1982.SonoraChristmasFaire.jpg Honey Drops - Hugs in the Grocery Store… TELLING AT THE SONORA CHRISTMAS CRAFTS FAIRE IN 1982 https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/online-school-part-2-giving-back-to-the-community monthly 0.5 2021-02-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1612573766827-27PG2C086ZIZKQ54B6GG/IMG_0514.jpg Honey Drops - Online School, Pandemic teen—Part 2: GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY… Christmas Cheer for People in Need. Connor with Shelley Muniz, Founding Member of the Resiliency Village https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1612573275744-YMY2YLNFFT0ZA9KUPXRF/IMG_0516.jpg Honey Drops - Online School, Pandemic teen—Part 2: GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY… - Little Things Matter Most an essay by Connor Lankow Freshman at Sierra Nevada Academy for ARTS Home School Grandie Connor helps out local homeless community with help from The Resiliency Village. Give Today to help their DREAMS! Pictured with Co-Founders Mark Dyken & Shelley Muniz https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/online-school monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1612571511068-7URD4RFTCODGM9HFPC62/Emilee.8thGrade_StorySlam2019-Mistakes.jpg Honey Drops - Online School? Life & Times of a FAVORITE Pandemic Teen Youngest Grand Connor telling stories at the Mother Lode Storytelling Guild’s 2019 Story Slam in Murphys, CA https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/why monthly 0.5 2021-02-02 https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/pandemic-part-3-click-to-connect monthly 0.5 2020-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1598556016393-9VBW2WEOO4RW9AKKZVTK/Screen%2BShot%2B2020-08-27%2Bat%2B12.15.06%2BPM.jpg Honey Drops - Pandemic-Part 3. Look for the gift Telling stories and doing finger plays for toddlers & preschoolers https://www.bzsmith.com/honeydrops/pandemic-part-2-this-is-the-real-deal monthly 0.5 2024-12-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1595219415744-Y5PUVIC2QIFK6MC0V3DL/IMG_0746.jpg Honey Drops - pandemic-part 2. this is the real deal? Pretty soon the masks started arriving in the mail. 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Us? https://www.bzsmith.com/events-2 daily 0.75 2021-02-06 https://www.bzsmith.com/events-2/event-one-3mjem monthly 0.5 2021-02-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1612575643534-L3O5ZVP517OY2JI3U2BO/IMG_0753.jpg Events 2 - Event One ROMANTIC STORIES ! https://www.bzsmith.com/home daily 1.0 2025-10-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/9be4b27f-b512-47c3-ae36-1bdd9baa816b/download-1.png https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1588722040779-WPYLVM5K5N7ZBMJSME86/image-asset.jpeg Home - Book BZ Now Find out how you can have BZ for your next Concert, School Show, Speaking Engagement, and more. BZ is now available for Zoom and Facebook Live sessions, as well… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1588629322595-M9WHXBCTWNZJ2YCK6AV7/sugm_cover.jpg Home - Buy Bz’s latest cd Eureka! Join us on a 2-hour journey to California’s Mother Lode Country. This award-winning 2-CD set includes 7 unique stories, 6 historic songs, 1 original song by Peg Reza, lots of historic tidbits and Overland Girl, an audio novel of one family’s journey to California by wagon train. https://www.bzsmith.com/about-bz daily 0.75 2025-01-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5eaca4c16ec9ee4642c7e815/1595444080901-4HRRYB2EAW1OZO6VTCTO/Headshot.jpg About BZ - Beginnings of the honeycomb … Storytelling runs in BZ’s family, so one could say she was born with the gift of gab. Her own father used to say, “Never let the truth get in the way of a good story!” One day, she tripped over the threshold of her local library, and landed face-down, smack-dab, into the best job ever: Being the Story Lady for Tuolumne County families. 52 years and 10,500+ storytelling programs later, with a slew of nice awards hanging on her wall, she still hears The Teller’s Call. ___________________________________________ Here’s a quick glance at that award wall… 1983—An award from the State Directors of Mental Health for designing a resiliency and self-esteem program for K-3rd grade students that leaned on children’s literature, shared through the Arts of Storytelling, Song, and Puppetry. 1991—A life-time achievement award from the Mother Lode Chapter of the National Association for the Education of Young Children for her work in children’s literature and family story times in the Central Sierra. 2001—A Parents’ Choice Foundation’s Gold Award for her first audio recording: The Story Quilters. 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