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Arna and the Pirates podcast
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Arna and the Pirates – a podcast for kids

November 7, 2022 by Tom Thumb No Comments

There are so many interesting, engaging, deep things I’m writing about at the moment but somehow they all got pushed…

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True Stories

The Story of the Time I Worked a Hard Day in My Life

September 14, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I grew up in a middle class family in the south of England and I’ve often felt a certain tension…

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Reading time: 3 min
stories of meditation
Stories

The Story of the Inner Self

June 6, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

When I was younger I had the idea that when you travelled somewhere far away where no one knew you,…

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Reading time: 13 min
fox in the snow
Stories

The Three Thieving Demons

May 12, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

This is the story of three demons who sat around at the end of the world wondering what they could steal from the humans, what would they miss the most?

The answer was… stories.

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Reading time: 15 min
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The Story of the Kissing Tribe

May 10, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

As an angry young man I traveled to the hills of Pakistan and, to my surprise, found a way to help change the world.

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Reading time: 6 min
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The Magician

May 10, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The Magician walked the winding mountain road towards the village, passing into the shadow of the towering volcanic peaks and…

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Reading time: 13 min
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The Story of the Wishing Well

May 1, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Once upon a time you had only to imagine a place to be sure that somewhere, somehow, it actually existed. One such place was the Wishing Well.

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Stories, True Stories

The Story of Joshua Norton I, Emperor of the United States

April 24, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Norton is one of my greatest heroes, a man who made his dream come true for him and everyone else just by believing in it…

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story of syphillis
True Stories

The Story of Syphilis

April 23, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The arrival of the Spanish to the Americas was one of the greatest catastrophes ever experienced by any society as…

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story of diogenes and alexander the great
True Stories

The Story of Diogenes the Cynic Philosopher

April 2, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

“You’re nothing but a hound dog!” is what you’re telling someone when you accuse them of being a cynic. Coming…

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True Stories

Moon Stories – What the Astronauts Told the People on the Moon…

March 29, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

There will probably always be people who don’t believe that the Americans went to the moon. It’s a free world…

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True Stories

Bible Stories – Noah and All the Drowning People

March 29, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Some of our oldest stories are to be found in the Bible and Christians like to point towards the old…

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True Stories

Coleridge, the Kubla Khan and the Funniest Story in the World

March 8, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

The story goes that in 1797, Samuel Coleridge, one of the foremost English Romantic poets, awoke from a dream with…

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The Story of Zen

March 1, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

 I remember the confusion I felt in my religious studies class at school when the teacher asked me what…

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Stories

Man in a Box

February 19, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Jonathan Spencer felt that his wife didn’t understand him at all. There he was, working every hour God sent to…

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Reading time: 11 min
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The Story of the Sphinx

January 18, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

It the mountain village of Singulus it was considered extremly bad manners to ever speak to anyone. In Singulus, a…

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Reading time: 11 min
story of saving world
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The Story of the Man Whose Finger Saves the World

January 18, 2016 by Tom Thumb No Comments

I’ve never liked stories that have a message. It always seemed to me that if the storyteller needed to finish…

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Reading time: 12 min
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The Man Who Fell in Love With the Moon

December 29, 2015 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Of all the stories of broken-hearted lovers, none was ever quite so tragic as the man who fell in love…

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Reading time: 7 min
Stories

The Story of the Death of the School Teacher – Whodunnit?

December 23, 2015 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Alfredo Ramses the schoolteacher was murdered at midday in the village church shortly after the morning sermon. Whodunnit? There were…

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Reading time: 10 min
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Hands of Life

December 19, 2015 by Tom Thumb No Comments

Leonard Leben was born into a wealthy family in 1521. His father died of typhoid leaving Leonard and his mother…

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Reading time: 14 min
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Arna and the Pirates – a podcast for kids

Arna and the Pirates – a podcast for kids

November 7, 2022
The Story of the Time I Worked a Hard Day in My Life

The Story of the Time I Worked a Hard Day in My Life

September 14, 2016
The Story of the Inner Self

The Story of the Inner Self

June 6, 2016
The Three Thieving Demons

The Three Thieving Demons

May 12, 2016
The Story of the Kissing Tribe

The Story of the Kissing Tribe

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