The Secret Lives of Stories: Rewriting Our Personal Narratives
On storytelling, and the questions it answers in our own lives:
“Around the time our daughter turned four, she started making what seemed like odd requests. ‘Tell me about the sad parts of your life,’ she would say at the dinner table. Or, ‘Tell me about the scary parts of your life.’”
This phase went on for a while. I played along, telling her about my appendectomy in Africa, the time I almost fell off a cliff, the time I got a fishhook through my finger. We talked about deaths in the family, and she would sit with her eyes wide, not saying a word, listening as if her life depended on it.”
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Poets & Writers
Published: Dec 22, 2012
Length: 11 minutes (2,788 words)