My husband and I met in an eight man rowing shell. He was the “stroke” of the boat, the rower who sits in the first position opposite the coxswain. I was the coxswain, the person who yells at the rowers and steers the boat. When I wasn’t yelling, “take a power ten” in...
In The Power of Story: Write for Yourself, I described the benefits of writing down our narratives for ourselves. But, writing our narratives does not just help us; these stories become gifts that we can give to our children, our siblings, our neighbors. These stories...
