“You can be whatever you want to be.” my father said.
“Then I want to be a writer, Dad,” I told him.
“You can’t.”
“But you told me I can be whatever I want to be.”
“Sorry. What I meant was you can be whatever doctor you want to be.”
Mary Kaye Valdez has been fond of written words since the second she found out she couldn’t get along with spoken ones. She also loves storytelling, but frankly, she’s just a liar who wants an excuse. Her work has previously been published in Down in the Dirt.
Loved it! Also the blurb about you… I could relate to that!
realistic, and has a sadness and a wit to it that makes it poignant.
As an old friend of MKB I can say tell you the hint of sadness and wisdom she has now was sorely earned and I would love to hear more about her experiences looking in the rear view so to speak-. RB