For this Blogging for Books, write a blog entry (2,000 words or less, please) about a time when you took a risk in your life on someone or something – a new romance, a new career, a new home, etc. Were you successful beyond your wildest dreams – or did you crash and burn?
“I can’t get over how brave you are,” my aunt told me on the phone a few weeks ago.
“I’m not brave,” I said. “I make Fuzzy kill spiders for me, and I’m still horribly shy.”
“But you picked up and moved from California to Texas,” she responded, her tone implying that Texas was about as foreign as Mars. “That’s brave.”
“No,” I said. “That was necessity.”
That conversation has been echoing in my brain ever since, as I’ve tried to figure out what about our move from California to Texas is brave.
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