What's Your Story?

We are all handed stories. There are the typical myths and legends of the area or culture we come from, ghost stories, bedtime stories, and made-up stories that fill our minds with images and ideas that shape who we are. But there is also a more personal story... The story that only we experience... The story only we can ever tell. Even people who lived through the same situations together, with similar backgrounds, will have different stories about the exact same event based on their perceptions, thought processes, speed of processing, observations, and emotional histories. 

I find it interesting that so many tales are floating around untold. Why do we hide our stories? Are we afraid of being known? Are we afraid of what they say about who we are? 

Throughout my life, I've endeavored to be an open book. I've seen what the hiding away can do to people. I've witnessed the buffering of self and outward perceptions through lies and embellishment of a person's story can do. It repulsed me and caused more scars on me than I can count. I don't need to have a better story than anyone else in this world. I just need to live my own in contentment and honesty. 

I'm doing my best to tell my story. What is yours?

A New Year... A New Book?

     It has been a year since I last stepped onto this blog with the intent of posting anything. One crazy, amazing, psychotic year. My hubs won his election to become our county's judge, I started homeschooling our three kids full time, and life set into a frantic pace that kept me on my toes and away from writing in any real capacity.
     During all that time, it wasn't the M'Shar series (which, by the way, I have presently stopped shopping agents for) that kept nipping away at my brain, but something altogether different. Something based on where I come from... Something more supernatural.

Stay tuned. We'll see how this goes.