Each of us live lives that are filled with stories. The embarrassing moment. The tragic evening. The hilarious mistake.

We often recount these stories as verbal tales but never make the leap to write them down as “story.”

When written well, our ordinary or even extraordinary events can become a story that serve as connections to the past as well as to the future of others.

Ruth VanderZee has mastered the art of transforming the everyday event into a compelling story. She has found her stories in her own front yard, in the classrooms in which she teaches, in church, sitting on a curb next to a stranger, riding the bus, and drinking coffee with a friend. Just as she has worked to write her own stories, she welcomes the opportunity to help you write yours so we can all connect and make sense of the world in which we live.