Stories For Speakers And Writers

In an interview at a Writer’s Symposium, Eugene Peterson spoke about his ‘imagination conversion’: “I was a new pastor. I was trying to unde...

An article in the New York Times (26 February 2008) attests to the value of journaling for cancer patients. It begins: “When my mother was ...

In his book, The Medici Effect , Frans Johansson, encourages people to spend time at the intersections of cultures and the disciplines of kn...

Barrie Hibbert sent me this comment on the formal apology to Australia’s indigenous people and this powerful story: [Australian] Prime Mini...

When I was at secondary school in Auckland, New Zealand, I wrote a geography essay on the topic, “That Auckland is a city of volcanic cones ...

Man Keung Ho, in Building a Successful Intermarriage , makes use of the Chinese word ting (listen) to explain the complexity. Ting (picture...

The Australian government made an historic apology this week (13 February 2008), spoken in parliament by the new Prime Minister, Kevin Rudd....

A 102-year-old Briton, Eric King-Turner arrived on the Saga Rose cruise ship in Wellington today, to a media frenzy after spending the five-...

Once when Mahatma Gandhi was twenty-four years old he was working as an attorney in South Africa. He boarded an overnight train with a first...

Sir Edmund Hillary (1919-2008), who recently died in New Zealand, wrote these thoughts about the great moments of his life: “For me, the mos...

In a recent posting from Delancey Place.Com this compelling excerpt appears in which Steve Martin writes of his strained relationship with...

In his memoir of his time running a free medical clinic in one of India’s largest slums, Gregory Roberts recalls the time he first heard the...

Check out the Experiencing the Emirates site to read the stories about the Shaikh of Dubai and his effective style of leadership. Dr. Geoff...

A man lived in a very comfortable house, with a large, light, airy cellar. The river ran near by. One day the river overflowed, the cellar w...

Friendship difficult in Apartment Towers The Melbourne Age has recently run a story on how two children have made a big difference to the p...

Newsweek recently ran a story about Thomas Garber who got a blood clot that left him paralyzed from the chest down. He thought about giving...

There is something about this time of the year that evokes dismay at some of our past habits, resolve to do some things new and an explorati...

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...