Once Upon A Time I have this friend who started going to Toastmasters. He’s really, really, shy and really, really introverted. His boss wants to promote him but this would required he travel around and give speeches on behalf of his company. So he requires that in order to get the promotion, […]
Lost Cities Of Seclusion
Money Stacks There are a lot of interesting metaphors about money, about the amount of actual physical currency you’d need to have a certain amount. Like $10K would be like a small stack of hundreds about an inch or so thick. Or a million would be a small stack of those. And […]
Hidden Prize Inside
Psychic Party I was invited to a tarot card party by this weird lady at my toastmasters group. She made it sound pretty interesting, so I went. When I went, everybody was really friendly and nice to me. One old guy got me a plate of appetizers, another lady kept refilling my […]
Juggling Hobbies
Food Cult Openings I used to know this guy in my Toastmasters group, a place where you can not only learn public speaking, but meet some pretty fringe type characters. He said he’d joined this kind of food cult, where they had very strict restrictions on what you were allowed to eat. He’d […]
Food Hypnosis
Street Preacher I was out wandering around the other day and I saw a street preacher off in the distance. I could hear the sound of his voice, but I couldn’t make out the words he was saying. But the crowd was huge, and even from a distance I could taste the charisma […]
First Supernatural Kingdom
Where’d My Toastmasters Go? A couple of weeks ago I went to my local Toastmasters meeting to give a speech. I had been practicing this speech for a couple of days. I was excited to give this speech, but when I got there there was no Toastmasters group. My Toastmasters usually meets or they […]
Queen Of A Lesser Kingdom
New Lady at Toastmasters A new woman came to my Toastmasters recently. She’s a very interesting combination or she has a very interesting combination of both confidence and anxiety. When she talks about normal things she’s very very confident, in fact she’s the most confident person I’ve seen in a very very long time. […]
Tarot Cards and Open Minds
Acting Class Recommendations A long time ago I took an acting class. It was recommended to me by a woman that was in my Toastmasters class. She said it was a very good way to help to increase your capabilities of expression. Public speaking has a certain level of skills. If you can combine […]
Time Traveling Engineers
Me And The Cute Barista There’s this girl I’ve been seeing lately. She’s a barista that works in my local coffee house. When I say dating, I mean we see each other, we enjoy seeing each other. As far I can tell that she smiles at me differently than she smiles at the other customers. […]