I think writing helps with everything. Writing forces you to look inside, and it forces you to share. And those are two things that heal us, beyond a doubt. And if you use your writing too, as a way to honor something bigger than yourself, it’s just going to bring you all kinds of blessings, as it has me. I always wrote as a little kid, even when I thought I’d be a veterinarian. We had — in the house, I had a newspaper with a circulation of three. It was called the Daily Happenings, and I was the only contributor. And my mother and father and I read it, and the dog could not read it. The first story was, “General Montgomery elected best man in world!” because of course my father was the best man in the world.
But writing has always helped me understand the world. It’s helped me expand my world. It’s helped make friends. And it’s a transformative thing.
