Should You Write Your Hardest Stories?

Are you prepared to expose your true self?

Secret Sorrow — Courtesy of Jochen Bongaerts

Three and half years ago my father suddenly passed away, at 70. That was so traumatic for me that I now categorize events in my life as “before that” and “after that”. However, I’m not prepared to write anything about that event, or about my father at all. I’d feel it like a lack of respect. Even the writing of these few words…