I am, at my core, a storyteller. Storytelling helps to drive meaning and a sense of shared experience in this wild, crazy journey of life. As Tyrion Lannister states in the finale of the award-winning HBO series, Game of Thrones, “There’s nothing in the world more powerful than a good story.” After falling hard for The Moth Podcast, I needed an outlet to share my own stories and drive community around the magic of personal storytelling.

Recently, I was seeking to build better habits and discipline around scheduling writing time into my days. I stumbled on a list of memoir-writing prompts, which align relatively well to my preferred style of “slice-of-life” true, personal stories. As a challenge to myself, I have been working my way through this list of prompts, attempting to go in order whenever possible and taking 20 minutes, usually as a way to start my day, to write about the daily topic. Often I will publish those 20 minute writing exercises here, under the category of “2o Minutes.”

Join me.