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I tell in a lot of cities and counties. Today I got a letter from a city asking if I had a license to conduct business in that city. Surely I can't be required to get a business license in every single city and county? I'd go broke! I'm not making much as it is. I'm looking at taking on another job now because I'm not making much. Does anyone have any information about this? Please share! What do you do? Thanks for any input!

I'm already thinking of programming ideas for this theme, how about you?

I'm also preparing to kick off my fall season in two weeks. I've decided to let customer requests direct my themes for the moment.

At the moment I'm preparing, Farm stores and Thomas the Tank Engine stories. If you have any great ideas for these themes please share them with me! I'm always looking for new stories.

Meanwhile my book clubs are going great! This month we read a wonderful Teen book Elsewhere by Gabrie… Continue

I'm trying to brainstorm some.

Perhaps I'm just a bit creatively drained from Summer Reading, Vacation Bible School and Camp telling but I'm having some difficulty coming with with an overall Sept-May theme to play off of.

In the past, I've used Around the World, Holidays, School Curriculum tie in themes, and random themes assigned to me.

I really enjoy having a bigger theme to work off of though I'm having trouble putting one into words at the moment. So any brainstorming theme help would be… Continue

All of my other clients are thrilled at what I do. Last year I did stories from around the world and we were going to continue this year.

One of my clients used to be a teacher. She is now in charge of a library. She doesn't like going around the world in story. It seems to scare her.

She doesn't like me doing anything but old traditional stories.

When she mentions a specific story she'd like me to do, such as The Gingerbread Man, it usually turns out I've done it recently. So clearly whateve… Continue