Category Archives: Storytelling: Other

Wendy Bigham wonders about people who tell important stories at difficult times in their lives. Her exemplar is Randy Pausch who has a best-selling book and highly viewed video, The Last Lecture, life lessons (Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams) delivered like the college professor he was before being diagnosed with … Continue reading →

Since comments are not very prominently displayed in this blog, I wanted to call attention to Stephanie West Allen’s comments about a recent entry, featuring the video of a presentation by Jill Taylor, a stroke victim and neuroanatomist. Apparently the science in this presentation has come under quite a bit … Continue reading →

Recently saw the documentary film, My Kid Could Paint That, about Marla Olmstead, who in 2004 was 4 years old and commanding thousands of dollars for her abstract paintings. The Binghamton, NY, reporter, Elizabeth Cohen, who initially broke the Marla story in the Binghamton Sun and Press Bulletin, noted in … Continue reading →

OK, I don’t mean to be irreverent here, but I read some good news for storytelling fans who believe the Bible is the word of God and even for agnostics like me who aren’t sure. This comes from “Guest Author” at Impact, a blog for Southern Baptists: There is a … Continue reading →

Two commenters, Corvus and Liz, expressed curiosity about my statement that I loathe and detest games in this post. For me, this issue is a tantalizing look at the question of nature vs. nurture. I believe it is possible that I was genetically programmed to hate games. It seems that … Continue reading →

I’m at a conference – of the Career Management Alliance – and heard the wonderful author and speaker Richard Leider today, who in addition to packing his presentation with stories, also made several references to the power of story. Building on the practice of Narrative Medicine, Leider declared that the … Continue reading →

In a piece on the George Ewart Evans Centre for Storytelling site entitled “‘Habits of the Heart’ Storytelling and Everyday Life,” Professor Hamish Fyfe asserts: … what shockingly bad job the human race is doing of providing a space for all of us to express our cultures, sense of identity … Continue reading →

I frequently come across uses of storytelling that are tangential to my direct interests but are interesting nonetheless – uses I probably would not have thought of, though they certainly don’t surprise me. Here are a few: Software development has the “user story,” defined as “a very high-level definition of … Continue reading →

Gospel Light Worldwide wanted to tell the story of what it does “in a very real, engaging way.” The organization enlisted Nims Media for its concept of creating a film around the children in the field who are using the GLW Bible-study curriculum. They made a film about “children who … Continue reading →

I love the way blogger Michelle Panik O’Neill presented the story prompt she learned about at a workshop. If you go to this blog entry, you’ll the see the above image, which you can click on to get an image big enough to read – a photo of a blog … Continue reading →