This is an irritatingly difficult challenge. Since I began blogging, I’ve asserted that you can’t write about yourself with complete accuracy, no matter how hard you try. When we tell our own life stories, we portray ourselves as we imagine we are and have been, and it’s inevitably subject to all our biases, the self-protective and the self-destructive ones. No one is merciless and/or fearless enough to do it. That’s why I’ve always said I’m writing here about a character based on me. Continue reading