Ah...so that's it.

Quoted in The Art of Teaching Writing (Calkins 1994): "Stories happen to those who tell them," Thucydides said.

I've always been in awe of people who are good storytellers and who have such interesting lives. I sit on the sidelines and envy them. The implication of the quote, which I believe to be true, is that I join them by joining them. If I begin looking for and telling the stories in my own life, I will find that mine is also an interesting life.

Hmm...