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While I think storytelling is a meaningful way to spend your life... it does feel a little bit secondary or off-point.

Sometimes stories are inherently important whether or not they have a direct relation to your life.

As I experience life and go through things, that's what I write about.

I think of myself as a storyteller, and that is it.

Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.

My life is storytelling. I believe in stories, in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive, and the dead.

I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.

I think that one of the things you have to do to become a storyteller is spend a lot of time reading stories.

I think of myself as a storyteller.

The thing that grounds you, and the thing that really gives you a sense of wholeness, is your family, friends and your community. Those are the things that can mirror back to you what you're experiencing, and can affirm to you that the stories you are telling are true.