How an international contest is inspiring everyone from little girls to grandmas to pick up drumsticks — and may be saving the musical instrument industry in the process.
In this collection we’ve gathered our favorite inspirational stories from around the world, told over six years of publishing true stories on Narratively. Human beings are much more complex than we sometimes admit, and these inspirational stories from ordinary people prove exactly that.
In this collection we’ve gathered our favorite inspirational stories from around the world, told over six years of publishing true stories on Narratively. Human beings are much more complex than we sometimes admit, and these inspirational stories from ordinary people prove exactly that.
How an international contest is inspiring everyone from little girls to grandmas to pick up drumsticks — and may be saving the musical instrument industry in the process.
One of the most brilliant minds of the Harvard class of ’35, Reed Edwin Peggram met his soulmate on the eve of World War II and risked everything to stay by his side.
After a devastating injury as a teenager, Mario Bonfante Jr. now races using equipment he built in his bedroom, and he’s ready to help others do the same.
Doctors said I probably wouldn't live to see my child grow up, but I still wanted to be a mom.
As a teenager, Mangesh Ghogre was obsessed with decoding puzzles filled with foreign references. Now he’s the only non-American to ever create them for The New York Times.
Chemo left her exhausted and depressed, but Mom found comfort in an obscure vlogger who reminds her of home.
As the children of the war reach old age, one group of survivors is teaching nursing home workers how to treat a type of trauma that only they can understand.
In this time of Islamophobia and hatred, I needed to understand what made a white stranger open her home to us.
The long-delayed trial of the KKK bomber meant white southerners like me—and my aunt, who was on the jury—could no longer ignore the evil around us.
We humans are far more complex than the news headlines and clickbait would have you believe. Let the Narratively newsletter be your guide.
