All the things we could be
When I was a kid I had an extremely active imagination. As I imagine all kids have. I wanted to be a singer (even though I’m just “okay”), an actress (thank you drama class), a writer (I started writing when I was just 9 years old and was published in the “Young Authors Fair” and so, my love affair with writing began), and a lawyer (thank you to the sit com “Night Court” and my mom’s insistence that this was the right path to choose). As I “grew up” I fell in love with fitness and took a detour from my chosen path of law to be a personal trainer and also decided to start my (unfinished and 9 credits shy) MBA. Eventually, I found my way back to law school, as I’ve always tried to be a person who does what they say they’re going to do. 3 years into practicing law, I took a huge risk (and when I say huge, wait for a future blog post on how huge) and opened my own law firm. But writing-writing has never left my side. It’s been there for me since I was a kid, soothing me, taking me away, helping me escape, helping me heal, and is as necessary to who I am as breathing. I have never finished reading classics like Dantes Inferno, nor have I read Nietzsche or the giant Shakespeare book my bio-mom gave me as a Christmas gift years ago (I refer to my biological mother as bio-mom because I have two moms; my biological mom that raised me until I was 18 and my step-mom who has been in my life since I was 19 and whom I’m super close to and refer to as mom, or “bonus-mom”, a term my older sister, Mercy, coined). Still, if I’ve learned anything from all of the books I’ve read, it is that everyone has their own writing style, and everyone has a story to tell, even if everyone isn’t a story teller.
I. am. a storyteller.
By trade or profession I am a lawyer. I practice business/corporate law in Florida and have been a litigator for several years. I love what I do, and I think I’m pretty good at it. But in my heart, I’ve always also been a writer. This blog is my continued pursuit of that passion. I have no expectations of what may or may not come of it. Only a desire to release that which has always been inside of me, waiting to be shared. The rest of the journey will tell itself. I’m just along for the ride.
Thank you for joining me.
And welcome to the shit show. I hope you’ll find the humor and beauty in it as much as I have. But mostly, I hope you find some inspiration in it. For life is most definitely not a spectator’s sport.
~Michelle Karinne Notte.
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