18 Comments to “Questions to Get Closer to You: Question 21”

1. May 29th, 2008 at 6:12 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   I often ask this question when I’m coaching. By the time we’re eight, we know what we like. This question helps us to get back in touch with ourselves and our natural passion.

   At 8, my favorite thing was going exploring in the woods past the river behind my house. I’d make up fabulous stories about what I found there. No two stories were ever the same.

2. May 29th, 2008 at 7:07 am
   Karin H. said

   Hi Liz

   8, wow that’s a long time ago
   Stories, yes many of them too in my head, exploring adventures in the fields still surrounding our new house. I’ve wrote many of them down, my growing steps as ‘writer’ and favourite pasttime: scribbling words down at the large wooden desk my dad had bought me.

   Still writing stories down, with my keyboard firmly placed on the wooden desk my partner made me out of left overs of wooden flooring dejavu?

   Karin H. (Keep It Simple Sweetheart, specially in business)

3. May 29th, 2008 at 7:15 am
   Robert Hruzek said

   I’m guessing here, but fairly sure it’s correct:

   It was a tossup between reading (I’d just discovered a treasure trove of old sci-fi magazines in my grandmother’s attic), and dismantling any alarm clocks I happened to find.

   So naturally I grew up to be an engineer/writer!

4. May 29th, 2008 at 7:35 am
   Karen Putz / DeafMom said

   I always had my nose in a book or I was off on my bike exploring the neighborhood. I also remember organizing “Kick the Can” games and outdoor sleepovers– which is probably the reason why I run the annual Mom’s Night Inn here in IL too.

5. May 29th, 2008 at 7:43 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Karin!
   I can see you, writing stories. It sure does sound familiar. Interesting that you point out the wooden desk in the picture.

6. May 29th, 2008 at 7:44 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Robert!
   It’s wonderful that you’ve found a way to put those two things together. Most engineers I know don’t write much. You’re blog is proof of your skill as a storyteller.

7. May 29th, 2008 at 7:45 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Karen,
   I can just imagine how much energy you had . . . you’re still filled with life. I bet your sleepovers are something.

8. May 29th, 2008 at 8:37 am
   SpaceAgeSage said

   As a girl with three older brothers who refused to have a “sissy” for a sister, I played in the barn, dry creek beds, and pasture land of the farm as the hero in my own action/adventure stories.

9. May 29th, 2008 at 11:49 am
   ME Liz Strauss said

   Hi Sage,
   I grew up in an all-boys neighborhood. I know about those adventure storie. Yeah!

10. May 29th, 2008 at 12:27 pm
    Jayme said

    Hi Liz! Your question triggered such great memories and I knew I just had to join the conversation.

    When I was 8 years old, I loved to read story books side by side with an illustrated dictionary. I also loved reading different quotations and writing about them in my diary.

    But when I got really bored, I would bring out my Archie comic books, read them out loud and change my voice according to the characters in the story.

11. May 29th, 2008 at 2:37 pm
    LaurenMarie - Creative Curio said

    Can’t you guess?? I liked to draw! I used to copy Disney cartoons, especially mermaids (I was almost 7 when The Little Mermaid came out in 1989)

12. May 29th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
    Mother Earth said

    I was very entreprenerial - that summer we had a penny carnival, I involved all the kids in the neighborhood and had all these fun ideas - I was lucky because the younger kids thought I was brilliant - I never saw so many pennies in my life!! Everyone got some. That was also the summer that I wanted to get filthy - each day was a mission to get dirtier than the day before. I’d roll around in the dirt. It used to infuriate my mom. Do you think that’s why I did it ?

13. May 29th, 2008 at 9:48 pm
    sunny said

    Love these stories. I was a reader of comics and biographies. I wrote, and started ventures like collecting toys for the hospital where my little brother stayed for awhile, staging a dog show, a circus and organizing a school bus stop at my house. Do you think I’ve stayed true to form?

14. May 30th, 2008 at 6:52 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Jayme!
    Archie comic books!! I’d almost forgotten about them! Pure joy!!

15. May 30th, 2008 at 6:53 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    LaurenMarie!
    How wonderful that you and the mermaid got to know each other so well. You loved to draw. Imagine that!

16. May 30th, 2008 at 6:54 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Mother Earth,
    I read about you rolling around in the dirt, and then I type “Mother Earth.” hmmmmmm

17. May 30th, 2008 at 6:56 am
    ME Liz Strauss said

    Hi Sunny,
    Like Mother Earth and you, we put on shows and carnivals in our neighborhood. The Illinois commission of whatever could have busted us for gambling. Of course taking out a bunch of primary school kids playing carnival might not have looked so good.

    I liked the Hardy Boys myself.

18. June 12th, 2008 at 6:19 am
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