A Writer's Biography, Author's Notes, Part 1

Yeah, this is turning into a memoir

Since this is about my history, this was my childhood home in Muscatine, Iowa, where I grew up and spent 19 years of my life. Image courtesy of Google Maps.

[NOTE TO MY SUBSTACK READERS: This post concerns a series of posts that I put out over the years on my Wordpress blog Liegois Media. If you actually want to read those articles in their original form, you can go to https://liegois.media/category/biography/ and find them all there. I am likely going to eventually post those stories here on Substack, but I am seriously considering expanding on and revising some of those original posts before I do that, for reasons that I’ll explain later here. Glad I could get everyone caught up.]

I had sort of feared that during the course of a few years online, as I slowly began to be more of a blogger and getting into my personal writing life and my experiences, that some of those blogs, which I have been gathering here under the title of A Writer's Biography could possibly become something bigger …