Goodbye Comfort Zone!
3 min readMay 5, 2021
Here’s to walking toward what scares you . . .
“You should rewrite this as a novel.”
That’s what my father-in-law said when he read a very early draft of my memoir in 2009. I dismissed that idea out of hand, because fiction — that realm of Toni Morrison and Thomas Hardy — that was too heady for me. Non-fiction, anchored by facts and memories, has always felt so much more accessible to me.