 "Have no fear, you will find your way. It's in your bones. It's in your soul." ~Mark Z. Danielewski
I've spent this week offering you my best advice on how to tell your stories using writing as your medium. I hope it's been helpful. Really, though, you and I are telling our stories every single day in the way we treat others, the things we share with them, and the path we, ourselves, take. I've always loved hearing people's stories just as much as being able to tell my own. Whether it was standing in line at the grocery store with a stranger, sitting on a front porch with friends or family, or just being curled up on the sofa with my girls sprawled all over me, hearing their stories is a happy, happy activity. Not only does it offer me a way to connect to others, but it also gives me insight into my own hopes, joys, fears and dreams. I believe those connections are one of the most important things we do in life. For ourselves, every day that we wake up brings new opportunities, a blank page, to create a fresh chapter. My story, my life is filled with chapters of love and pain, clarity and confusion, light and dark mixed in with laughter, tears, music and dancing. When the day comes that I must pen my own epitaph, I hope it will say, "She lived fearlessly and left all the people and things she came into contact with better than when she found them." To my mind, that's a damn fine story.
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I grew up in rural North Carolina. When I was only nineteen, I moved away and became a military wife. My only aspiration at that tender time in my life was to create an adult life that "fixed" all of the "injustices" of my childhood. Secretly, however, I wanted to reach for the sky! I wanted to be a writer and find ways to "save the world" (my mother used to say, "You have Save the World Syndrome".). Mostly, I wanted to matter. Archives
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