Worth Repeating: A Live Event

I recently had the chance to share a true story in front of a live studio audience as part of a public radio show called Worth Repeating. I’d already told this story on the page, both in a sneaky fictional form as my debut novel, Proof I Was Here, and as an essay that’s included in my memoir-in-progress, so I figured it wouldn’t be that hard to adapt it for the stage. But I quickly discovered that telling a true story live is a much more intense experience than writing that same story at my desk. For one thing, there’s no time to edit or pause to reflect. You just have to step toward the mike, board the story like a train, and then try to connect with the people in the seats nearby as you all go speeding towards your destination. If you’d like to listen in on the journey we took, the video recording is available here.