To: My Blogger Friend Bill
About a month ago as I was catching up on the reading of my favorite blogs, I ran across bill's blog post titled, "Two Stories". I read the post time after time and was seized by the story and the style of writing in which he used to retell it. The surprise ending made me catch my breath. I eventually copied and pasted it to a Word document then printed it in order to read it, yet, some more. I recently completed ten more manual speeches in front of my Toastmaster group and was rewarded with the Advanced Communicator Bronze certificate and acknowledgment. This allowed me the opportunity to order and receive two more advanced manuals with project objectives to complete. One of the manuals is entitled; Interpretive Reading. The first speech objective was to read a story authored by someone else and to do it in such a way, it evokes emotion from the audience and brings them into the story. "Two Stories" seemed the perfect one to present. I secured permission fro...