Joyful Public Speaking (from fear to joy)

Monday, July 27, 2026

He went from being a government speechwriter to a part-time school bus driver

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                    There is an article by Steven Miller at ProRhetoric on July 21, 2026 titled From Government Speechwriter to School...
Sunday, July 26, 2026

Celebrating another milestone of over five million total page views on my Joyful Public Speaking blog

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                                              The Stats tab on Google Blogger says this blog now has 5,026,125 page views!       ...
Saturday, July 25, 2026

An excellent eighteen-minute 2026 commencement speech by country singer-songwriter Eric Church at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill

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                                                        At the ProRhetoric web site on May 11, 2026 I saw an article titled Your Life,...
Friday, July 24, 2026

A Pearls Before Swine comic about how effort is the key to success

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                                    Stephan Pastis’s Pearls Before Swine comic strip has a gray donkey called the   Great Wise Ass who ...
Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Ice Breaker speeches for Toastmasters International and four big questions

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                          The very first project in the Pathways educational program at Toastmasters International is the Ice Breaker...
Monday, July 20, 2026

A Sheldon comic about three levels of insurance

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                                      Sometimes a comic strip can add to both your knowledge and vocabulary. I had previously heard of r...
Sunday, July 19, 2026

There is a massive 710-page book titled The Complete Johnny Cash: Lyrics from a Lifetime of Songwriting

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                                                Back on April 4, 2011 I blogged about Stories in words and music: country edition . Of ...
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Richard I. Garber
This blog is about public speaking. The author is Richard I. Garber, ACS, a Toastmaster. From July 2008 to June 2010 he was Vice President-Education for Capitol Club Toastmasters in Boise, Idaho. From July 2017 to June 2019 he was Vice President Public Realtions for Saint Al's Toastmasters. Opinions expressed on this blog are those of the author alone, and are not the official positions of Toastmasters International, etc. Richard is retired. He has over twenty years of experience as a consultant on failure analysis (figuring out why things busted or rusted) and a Ph.D. in Metallurgical Engineering & Materials Science. His email is r_i_garber at hotmail.com
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