Dear First name / friend,
Have you ever thought about how one moment - a small decision, an unexpected conversation, a glance across a crowded room - can shape the course of a life? Memoir is where we honor those moments, not with fanfare, but with curiosity and care.
This week, I’m thinking about butterflies. Not the flitting kind (though they’re charming), but the metaphorical kind—the Butterfly Effect moments that create ripples across our memories and become the spine of our stories. One of mine?
Saying yes to raising a puppy for a service dog organization. (Fifteen times, actually. To say I love dogs is an understatement.) The butterfly effect of this real-life example is not only the dogs we've raised for a higher purpose, but the people we've met along the way: fellow raisers, but more importantly, the ones whose lives are changed because of the dogs we've chosen to love for a year.
In memoir, the magic is in tracing the thread backward, and then writing forward with purpose.
Here’s what I’ve got for you this week...
