My first Blog – the maiden voyage.  And, yes, I feel just like those of you who are writing your first bio-vignette by answering the question, “If you could tell just one small story capturing your mother’s character to keep her spirit alive, what would it be?”

And take my lead on this – I’ve gleaned from the wise webbers that a blog should  be written like you’re talking to a friend. Don’t get too wound up in writing the perfect sentence; it isn’t a novel, and neither is the true short story you’ll write about your mother. So please give yourself permission to write just like you’re telling someone the story.

Thanks for finding TellTale Souls in this vast arena of cyberspace. It’s my goal to give you interesting information and ideas to make your time with me exactly where you want to be, since you have more choices than the national debt – but we aren’t going there.

It’s a lot more fun Keeping Spirits Alive One Story at a Time. We’ll explore – could it be expose?  – relationships with our mothers or a significant mother figure. When you dig and you delve, making memories rise to the surface of your consciousness, it can be exhilarating, unnerving, cathartic, often a combination of everything. I promise you you’ll laugh and you’ll cry and you’ll be glad you made the journey.

We’ll also take a look at what other interesting folks are doing on the internet in some artistic form or another. From actor to author, designer to dramaturge, poet to painter, writer to weaver, I plan to interview many.

With a big smile on my face, I just told my husband that I’m writing my first blog. He said the “trick” to it is to write something every day. Well, I don’t think I can do that and keep my sanity, so I’m planning on a couple of times a week to blog. Who said, “The best laid plans of mice & men sometimes go awry,” anyway?