Stories For Speakers And Writers

All their lives the two young brothers had lived in the city behind great stone walls and never saw field nor meadow. But one day they decid...

During the reign of Oliver Cromwell, the British government began to run low on silver for coins. Lord Cromwell sent his men to the local ca...

Time overseas recently convinced me of the need to take a longer time out from some regular activities such as blogging. I plan to undertake...

In a letter to poets in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, Russian Nobel laureate Boris Pasternak observed: “One must write wonderful th...

Thanks to Barrie Hibbert for passing on this story. In the October 2009 issue of the magazine Canonmills Baptist Church (Edinburgh), Tom Fle...

Ira Glass , the host of This American Life explains the art of constructing a great story. Momentum He looks at the building blocks of a co...

Thanks to my friend Simon Holt for this quote by Jürgen Moltmann on the busyness of humanity, the contemporary ‘distress of time’ and the ad...

It is always good advice to listen to experienced storytellers if you honing up your skills in telling a story. Thanks to Metafilter and Ab...

I am a great fan of Hugh MacLeod . On his web site, Gaping Void , he describes himself in these terms: * I'm a cartoonist. * I sell limi...

Ricky Gervais, the comedian and the Director of The Office and The Invention of Lying , tells in an interview…about his ‘born again’ experi...

Montblanc , the Swiss luxury pen maker has issued a $23,000 pen to commemorate the birth of Mahatma Gandhi (October 2, 1869). The limited-ed...

Another suicide this week of a France Telecom worker, adding to a spate of suicides at the partially state-run firm, prompted Rupert Wright ...

Sir Michael Parkinson, the king of the TV chat show, has interviewed John Lennon, Katherine Hepburn, Nelson Mandela and more than 3,000 peop...

John Lennon, the English rock musician and member of 'The Beatles' was asked in an interview whether his song Lucy in the Sky With D...

Shit Happens! I’ve never thought much about the expression, ‘Shit Happens’ until last week when I visited an Elephant Orphanage in Sri Lanka...

This video urges us to think about making our lives count, improving the lot of others and shaping our world for good. Link Nitin Nohria ...

An elderly woman wrote this letter to her bank. The bank manager thought it amusing enough to have it published in The Times of London. Dea...

A Catholic Priest, Protestant Pastor and Jewish Rabbi were all chaplains at the same university in the USA. They would meet 2-3 times a week...

I don't do big things. I do small things with big love. Mother Teresa Dr Geoff Pound Image: Mother Teresa.

Check out the newly released photos from the refurbished Hubble Telescope. Which is your favorite space shot? So important to get our daily...

Induction At Springfield Mass. on Friday (11 September 2009) Michael Jordan was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. The ceremo...

Whatever side of the political fence you sit on, the following statement illustrates the value of letter writing, the importance of taking t...

Copyblogger, Brian Clark, tells this story about authority and then applies it to people seeking to build an online business : A television ...

In a TED Talk on Nurturing Creativity , author Elizabeth Gilbert tells how to capture and contain creativity in constructive ways: “And what...