L.R. Burt

Telling Stories

Don’t be hasty.

August19

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This is what happens when you order a new TV, purchase a new TV stand from Ikea, and get a little too antsy about listing your old stuff on Craig’s List so you’ll be all ready when the new stuff arrives.  You get stuck with only a 13” TV/VCR combo in your massive entertainment center.  (That new 50” plasma is going to look like IMAX in comparison.)  You also have to reschedule the Wii night you remembered, an hour after a stranger drove off with the old TV, you were supposed to be having with your cousin and his wife this Friday.  Whoops.

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Storytelling is second nature to me. When I was three, I told stories about Rainbow Brite. Now I’m quite a bit older than three, and I tell stories about people I make up. And about people I don’t make up. And especially about myself and my (mis)adventures as a writer, wife, mommy, and Walmart shopper. Because life is just a collection of stories. Sometimes, it’s far stranger than fiction…

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