First Post to Kindra Hall Tells All

As far back as I can remember, I would write. I would write when I was excited, I would write when I was sad, I would write because my parents and siblings were tired of me talking but I still had more to say ... It was never fictional, never material meant for a novel (like the ones I like to read sitting by the pool in the summer -- as guilty a pleasure as chocolate); it was more or less observations on scraps of paper, on the kidsmats at restaurants, on the church programs on Sundays. Scattered thoughts that I simply HAD to get out of my head and on paper.

Then, in fourth grade, it happened. For my birthday (a party where we went to see HOOK in the movie theater, tie-dyed Tshirts in the washing machine AND had a sleepover with COOL RANCH Doritos), a friend gave me a diary. A DIARY. It had a lock and key and everything (the lock of course didn't lock, but I didn't know that). I began to write even more. I wrote about what happened in Mrs. Wordelman's class, I wrote about planting potatoes in the yard, I wrote about finding a big grub worm while planting potatoes in the yard, I wrote about my little sister crying about the grub worm I found in the yard while planting potatoes... I wrote about everything.

Today, I find that it wasn't something I grew out of -- in fact it became more than writing. In fact a "writer" is the last word I would use to describe myself. My passion has become speaking, it's become teaching, it's become motivating. More than anything, my passion has become telling; telling the stories of moments I have witnessed, of things I've experienced. Telling the stories of the things that have inspired me or challenged me. REtelling the stories that made an impact or left a mark on me. I have always seen my life, and now the lives of other people, of businesses, of empires... as stories.

Here. Here is where I share them.

I offer this blog to you, fearless readers. In this blog I give you random observations, examined theory, and plenty of story. I offer you this blog that you may enjoy reading it as much as I enjoy discovering, dissecting, and documenting the happenings contained within.