Stories For Speakers And Writers

Brian Clark asks in his blog article: Have you ever wondered: * What the three little pigs, the three blind mice, Goldilocks and the three b...

I have gone through the archives of Stories for Speakers and Writers and culled out any stories that I think could be useful for reflection ...

Introduction This is an edited version of an article by Jay Cross entitled ‘Conversations’. He writes about conversation, stories, the World...

Kent Nerburn in his book Letters to My Son writes about the value of travel: "Because I have traveled, I can see other universes in th...

Some children were acting out the Christmas story. They had worked on it for months. They had researched the story from the Scriptures, then...

I have posted some excerpts from two lectures given by Sonia Gandhi in which she describes the tragic forces in her family and in the nation...

Back when NASA started launching manned spacecraft in the 1960s, they found out that the astronauts couldn’t use pens to write with while in...

Earlier I posted an excerpt from Margaret Forster’s book, The Memory Box , in which one of her characters is unable to live in the present, ...

Mark McGuinness says: Organisation, structure, discipline and habit—these often seen as threats to creativity. Not to mention corporate-soun...

A man in Massachusetts won $4,200 in the daily numbers game in the state lottery. He got in a cab to go and collect his winnings. On the way...

Looking for a story for your article or talk? In addition to going through the archives on this site or using the (top left) Search Function...

Robert Dessaix in his novel, Corfu , pens this conversation between the narrator and William: ‘Nothing seems to “mean anything” to you, Will...

Brian Clark, in his recent posting to bloggers , about the crippling power of fear, tells about one aspect of this plague—perfectionism. He ...

In the book, A Thousand Splendid Suns , by author Khaled Hosseini, Babi, Laila and Tariq are venturing out from Kabul to see some of Afghani...

Al Jazeera has run today a news item on the making of beautiful music in Iraq, against all the odds. The Iraq Symphony Orchestra began in th...

‘Why do we do it?’ It was one of those last night questions—not even a question…. It had been an exhausting evening—the first run-through of...

E L Doctorow writes tellingly of the role of newspapers and their importance to us: “The outside perspective reduces everything to reasonabl...

Stories for Thanksgiving See Updated List for Thanksgiving 2008 . With American Thanksgiving being celebrated this Thursday (22 November 200...