Storytelling is Freedom

How Viktor Frankl inspired me to use storytelling to redeem an early childhood trauma

Gracious reader,

When I was four years old—and for many years later—my favorite pastime was frog hunting. There was no swamp pond or quagmire I was unwilling to traverse in the name of a robust, amphibious catch.

One warm midsummer day—when I should have been taking a nap—I disobeyed my mother, escaped my soporific confines, and succumbed to the siren so…