1–2021 INTRODUCTION TO: STRIPPING SNOW WHITE

Every author knows there are as many ways to begin a story as there are versions of that story.  And then there’s me who has known, right from the get go, exactly when, where and why this version of my life story would start on a specific night in the middle of my life followed by going back and forth in time.

Being that it’s taken quite a while to muster the self confidence necessary to begin my story at the exact moment that intuition insists is right on the mark, suggests my need to up my quota of courage, as proved necessary, every day, during my current recovery from open-heart-by-pass surgery followed the very next day by the removal of a significant portion of my right lung.

The fact that the well-practiced scalpels of two renown surgeons had need to cut so deeply into my flesh and bone, the first time through my sternum, the second time through the rib cage of my upper back, all within a 24 hour period of time, highlights why everything that had ever pained or frightened me before these surgeries has paled by comparison, and it’s highly likely that since my husband, Will, and I were injected with our second doses of the Covid vaccine, yesterday (only six months after both life saving surgeries), my storyteller awoke, today, feeling injected with the ‘author-ity’ to be hot to trot having been sequestered inside my mind for fourteen months, starting with the severity of my cancer diagnosis (as if threat of Covid during the time of trump would not have been enough to make my hair stand on end before chemo made it all fall out)—sooo just as my power of intuitive thought combined with courage to guide my mind to rise to the level-headed mental state of positive focus—over most of my adult life—I can feel my story teller’s hand readying its pen to tap into the courageous side of my memory, today, which is why if I were you, I’d stay tuned to see if intuition and courage combined will empower my storyteller (who resides within the self-confident side of my brain) with carte blanche, tomorrow ...

🙋🏻‍♀️Annie