Writer’s Note — October 1, 2023
Do you fondly recall your firstborn? I speak not of children but of personal writing. This is mine and I love it more than anything I have written since. Doesn’t mean it’s my best piece, but it’s damn good, and some of it certainly feels downloaded and foreshadowed much that has followed. I covered a wide range of topics from heavy — substance abuse, depression, suicide, and codependency — to light — love, my children, my favorite foods, and my favorite music and lyrics. A true self-portrait in essay form. The good, the bad, the ugly — and the beautiful. I wrote it in December 2013. Published it on Medium in 2020. As Conni Walkup Hull reminded me yesterday when I read her You Don’t Need Permission to Tell Your Story, You own everything that happened to you, this is my story. A few of you have read it. I share it now with all of my subscribers (at least the ones that Medium will not fail to email) and I hope you enjoy it and get something out of it. I did. It’s my story.
Writer’s Note — December 2020
Greetings from my chrysalis. I wrote this essay in December 2013. It is my first piece of self-expositive writing. It is both my first not-a-legal-brief and personal writing of any sort. I did not write another for six and a half years. While the period in between is essential both to whom I am and becoming, but for the tail-end of the period and anything having to do with my wonderful…
