When I was young I was pretty good at chess. I was the captain of the school team and a…

 The 13th century Persian Sufi poet, Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi, or just Rumi, is the name everyone thinks of when…

Is there anything more human than telling a story? Cliches come to mind of cave people gathered around a fire…

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Although it was ancient wisdom that marriage was joy for a month and misery for a life, yet everyone agreed that Abu Hasan should marry. With a healthy personal fortune, a keen wit and a generous heart, he was quite the most eligible bachelor in Baghdad…

Stories from Lao tzu, Chuang Tzu and other Chinese mystics from thousands of years ago.

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.

“Good day! I saw you from far away and I am starving to death!” “Good day! I was dead but…

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

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

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

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…