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@evelyn Ahh, dear Evelyn, you always make the greatest threads. 😊 I love this so much!

Wow, those stories are amazing! Thank you for sharing.

I always used to think that I didn’t have a very interesting life or history or ancestry. My life was boring, my parents life was boring and my grandparents life had been boring too and theirs before them. But I can remember one night, sitting down with my Dad and asking him questions about his grandparents. He told me all kinds of interesting stories of when they was growing up and starting a family. How they really struggled financially during the Great Depression and how it really affected his grandma and I started to think, “Wow, there really is a story here! This is super interesting.” It wasn’t like anything mind blowing or crazy but there was still so much there to learn from.

I wonder if sometimes maybe we miss really good story opportunities because we aren’t looking. We think that our lives or the lives of people we know are boring…when in reality, no one’s story is boring in the least. We just have to listen and keep our eyes open.

As for writing non-fiction myself, I started writing an autobiography of sorts about my journey with anxiety and panic attacks. But I didn’t get very far…I would like to take it back up sometime in the future though.

@bama-rose Oh, that is so cool that you are writing stories about the 60’s scoop! I looked it up and wow, it’s so sad. I’d never really heard of it before.

I’m familiar with the history of Native American kids being sent to schools to be “civilized” and I’m horrified by what happened. I feel like it may be a subject people don’t really talk about that much. I think it’s awesome that you and your family are fostering…that’s always been something that interested me.