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Stories about My Family
These are stories about my family: Parents, siblings, children, cousins, aunts and uncles, in-laws (you get the picture.) |
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Stories of My Adventures
These are stories I tell in first person as they are of my own experiences: things that I did, things that happened to me, things that I witnessed, .... |
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Stories Shared by Others
These are stories I tell in third person as they are stories which other people have shared with me about their experiences: things that they did, things that happened to them, things that they witnessed, .... |
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Stories Handed Down
These are fables of folklore. They are stories that I have read or heard -- stories which have been handed down from person to person and generation to generation. (They did not happen to me nor to the person from whom I heard the story.) |
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Stories I Remember
These are other stories which made an indelible impression in my memory. They are things that I read about or heard about sometime during my past. They contain bits of wisdom collected here and there. |
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Stories about my beliefs
These are stories I which describe what I believe, as best I can understand and explain it. |
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Stories from my Imagination
These are stories which are a creation of my dreams and other imaginative ramblings. They did not actually happen. (They include things I may have thought about doing - but would never really do!) |
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Stories I Frequently Tell
These are stories I frequently tell (selectively) to friends and colleagues about things I have learned in my travels. |
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Stories for Retirement
These are stories which are best told calmly and reflectively when no longer actively employed. They contain lessons "to be" learned and other observations from my work in various industries. |
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Stories from the Skeleton Closet
These are stories I tell not! They are stories that I might like to have forgotten: things which maybe I should not have done, (or things I should have done, but didn't) - things which are ... well, a bit embarrassing .... Nonetheless, they have contributed to my life's collection of "lessons to be learned." |
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Stories I've Forgotten
These are stories I have been able to selectively forget (and to virtually shred into little, teeny bits, beyond recognition.) |
