The Stories We Tell Ourselves

by Andrea Cagan

I’m aware of four kinds of stories:

There are fairy tales that we read to and tell our children when they say, “Tell me a story.” We spin yarns about fantasy worlds, places they’ve never seen and characters who don't exist, like Santa Claus, the tooth fairy, Rumplestilskin, enchanted forests, princesses and fairy godmothers. It’s all about the imaginatio…