BRCM Storytime at Stone Soup!

• Blue Ridge Children’s Museum Storytime Series at Stone Soup!

Join us for this new Storytime Series at Stone Soup Books benefiting Blue Ridge Children’s Museum! Local authors will join us to share their stories & activities AND of course snacks!  Reservations are recommended with Pay-what-you-will donations going to help BUILD the Blue Ridge Children’s Museum

• BRCM Storytime Series: Sat, Mar 4, 2PM  with Lori Mier and her book "Merin and Her Very Bright Star; A Story of Resiliency" We’ll be serving up some Very Bright Star Sugar cookies and doing a sketching activity along with listening to the Story!
• About the Book:  A young girl with a deeply felt loss in her life  turns to a very bright star to talk to each night. She also carries a  notebook wherever she goes to sketch all the bright and beautiful things  that she sees that remind her to wonder about her mom and dad. With the  help of a grief counselor and an unexpected friend, Merin learns a lot  about herself and the world.   Merin And Her Very Bright Star is a  heartfelt story for children in the early grades. Themes include  healing, self awareness, developing relationships, grief and loss,  coping, nature connection, community and resiliency. 

About the author: Lori Mier is the creator and owner of her story. She loves chai tea and sunrise hikes. Lori owns Blue Mountain Path Coaching LLC where she offers healing experiences as a children’s book author, Ecotherapist guide, and photographer. Merin and Her Very Bright Star: A Story of Resiliency is her first children’s book, which was deeply inspired by her own story of loss and healing. Lori is on a mission to help normalize grief, healing and having difficult conversations. Lori has a degree in Social Work and created a not-for-profit hiking program–Through Hiking–

along with her husband to offer guided hikes to agencies and youth in foster care. She works as a Teacher Assistant and serves on the Equity Committee for Rockingham County Public Schools. She also sits on the Board of Directors for RISE

Foundation in Waynesboro, VA where she is committed to education, political action, and racial justice work. Although she is not originally from Virginia, Lori feels the most at home where she lives in the Shenandoah Valley with her husband and son.