Five Years a Writer

Let’s play school for a moment.  Today’s assignment is to answer the question, Who are you?  You’re welcome to treat it as a deep philosophical consideration or as a superficial ‘cocktail party’ game. Regardless of how you approach the question, though, I am willing to bet two things: One, it’s not that easy to answer. Two, your answer will shift and change — if not quite with the wind, then with the time, the place and the person asking the question. Oh, and also, there is a word limit: no more than 65 words, please.  It’s challenging to encapsulate ourselves in a mere few words. Sure, we can offer a slice into our identity with just one word: Teacher. Wife. Father. Sister. Lawyer. Doctor, etc. But that tells the world only a role we hold or a relationship we have relative to another person. What does that one word actually say about us as a person — a wholly formed, fully complex person with history and credentials and experience and longings. Not much, right? Not nothi...