Archive for the ‘Stories’ category

March 17th – Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2012

     March 17th is celebrated by Irish communities round the world as the Feast day of St. Patrick the great patron saint of Ireland. It is also a day to celebrate Irish culture.  often associated with the celebrations is the Lepechaun a little old man with a beard and a hat appearing in Irish Folklore. [...]

A Summer Story

August 17, 2011

  (Adapted from a Native American Folktale) How Winter and Summer decide to live at Peace….  Long ago there lived a group of American Indians lived at the edge of Winterland in an island called the “Land of Sunrise.” The Indians of the island called themselves the ‘Children of Light,’ Wawaniki, because they were the only [...]

The Story of Queen Viharemahadevi

March 14, 2011

  There was once a king by the name of Kelani Tissa who ruled Sri Lanka from his capital in Kelaniya. He got furious with a monk whom he wrongly suspected was involved with his queen in some way. He ordered the monk to be put in a boiling cauldronn of oil and be put [...]


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