I Write Therefore I Am

An Eclectic Non-Famous Writer’s Modest Manifesto

Curious Little Karine (family photograph owned by the author)

I was an inquisitive child. Observing, noticing, asking questions, always wanting to know: Who? What? When? Where? How? Why?

When I learned to read, the ideas that poured into my head were like a feast. And when I learned to write — to capture new learning and ideas in the form of words on a piece of paper — it was…