Nobody Puts Baby in the Corner

But they do put her in your mind, and here's how.

“Stories are equipment for living.” Kenneth Burke

This was the opening quote from a talk I gave recently.

We put stories on like equipment. Think of the young high schooler slinging a backpack over her shoulder or the soldier tying up his boots and picking up his rifle.

Stories, if told well, stick in our minds, sometimes unknowingly, and they carry loads…