Observations: on writing nonfiction again

I wrote about my life in 2009. It was therapeutic, and I felt compelled to share my story with audiences because this felt like a natural conclusion to the material. What I didn't realize is that ...

I had only begun to write about my journey. And in many ways, I had yet to fully understand it.

What I wrote about then, specifically, was what I had decided amounted to poor decision-making skills as a child and young adult. I wrote words I had yet to fully understand the definitions of, and I molded them in cadences that flowed. I wrote scenes from my …