by Colin Pearce | Jul 24, 2019 | Storytelling works
My novel ‘I used to be dead’, about 4 naughty kids is set in 28 AD in Israel during the rule of the Roman Emperor Tiberius. Authenticity demanded I visit the country to investigate the old places like Capernaum, taste local foods, see the families celebrating Sabbath...
by Colin Pearce | Jul 19, 2019 | Storytelling works
One winter’s evening meal set my destiny as a storyteller. I was six. Embarrassing dark secret My big brothers didn’t like me. Who could blame them? I was their embarrassing dark secret. Our mother became pregnant with me as an old lady of 39 when they were 9 and 12....
by Colin Pearce | Apr 5, 2018 | Storytelling works
You are ten times BIGGER than you think This story illustrates ways in which you are ten times better than you think. You are a whole lot bigger. In many cases, up to ten times bigger. If you are anything like the man in this story, you might be 500 times bigger. I...
by Colin Pearce | Mar 10, 2016 | Storytelling works
I’m grateful. Lots of you have written in to say you appreciated the idea about asking your team or family about how you can be a better person. It’s certainly a clue about how to finish well. However one unhappy camper wrote: Thanks a lot Mr Colin Pearce, Last...
by Colin Pearce | Oct 3, 2015 | Storytelling works
There’s always hope. I am sitting in a hospital lounge. I’m waiting to collect a friend I’ve brought in for a brief procedure for which he needs an anaesthetic and consequently needs someone to take him home. He’s aging. So am I. Right there in front of me...