Did I Choose Writing?

I get asked, did I choose writing? Like, did I decide I wanted to be a writer because I thought I might like working there + health care + 401K + Femla + Paid Days Off + (gosh)? Early in our relationship, I made the mistake of telling a senior neighbor lady I had a petrified interest in writing but I and Sherrie were building our own house right then and so forgot about writing for a few more years. My neighbor lady didn't. She pestered. Our house got built. Finally, I thought, oh, well and wrote a story called Lostine for her now famous writing group, Tuesday and found out I am a natural and when you find out what you are truly good at, you gotta have more. I would call it - a calling. For sure. For sure. By the bye, that “neighbor lady” – Jeannie Esteve – whose poetic whimsy has pubbed in practically every Literary Magazine there is.