Technologies have changed cultures and language. Writing allows communication with a person across rooms.  We have not figured out how to communicate well enough without conflict.

The author is telling here narrator as a child through childish ways. Comparing WOWO memoir writing to visuals. What if the WOWO writer used images? How would it change their stories?

Stan evokes visuals of Moses flowing down the river in a basket.  Provoked our thoughts on adoption

The author is making sense of painful topics without making them seem painful.

What’s a story? Would our ideas of a story become more compelx now that we’ve been exposed to different forms of storytelling?

We’re sharing another personal story with our partners.  How do we make memories into stories?

We can use artistry and improvise details. Consider your audience. Think of the structure, beginning, middle, and end. The storyteller makes meaning out of their stories.  Words can create a picture for the audience. Share a story where you can remember a time when you had an experience that you reflected back on later in your life because it taught you something.