Hello, my dearies. Please watch the video below to become more acquainted with your Mother of Spending Her Time Reading All the Time Because She Likes Made-Up Worlds More Than Her Own.

Welcome, children.

Below is a transcript for the welcome video if you’d like to follow along:

Hello, my fellow readers, daydreamers, and heavily-relying-on-books-to-make-me-feel-better-because-at-least-they’ll-never-leave-me-on-read-for-two-weeks-ers. My name is Theresa, and I’d like for us all to connect through the stories we travel through, and the words from them or that we derive from them.

All stories and quotes are welcome, I don’t discriminate. So, even if you want to talk about a collection of words that Bella might’ve uttered about two cute guys that were fighting over her in the woods…if you want to use that, that’s fine. I’m not gonna judge. I used to watch “Twilight” myself when I was younger.

Matter of fact, I still have the entire DVD set, and I’m not giving it up to Goodwill. It’s staying with me. Thank you.

Decisions. Decisions. Right, Bella? Team Edward, by the way. If you’re Team Jacob, your mother is disowning you (just kidding, I don’t discriminate, remember?)

I loved reading stories and writing them ever since I was a kid. I found solace in stepping out of my life and into others, and realized I wanted to provide this solace for others as well. That’s why I started writing stories in addition to reading them.

I’ve gone from having notebooks of stories in my closet to now having a published poem book on Amazon and an aspiring novel. From an early age I realized I wanted to share the solace I found in reading, and that’s what I decided to do.

Whether they’re stories that I’ve written or stories written by others, words from stories manage to stay with me after I put the book down…or five minutes before I pick it back up again because I’m not going outside.

We all have those quotes that have stuck with us.

Whether it’s Ron Weasley’s “Why spiders? Why couldn’t it be butterflies?” For me, it’s neither. Spiders scare me and butterflies freak me out, so NO. So, whether it’s Ron Weasley’s quote or Holden Caulfield’s “If a body catch a body through the rye?” I know we have all read “Catcher in the Rye” in high school at least seen the cover and pretended to read it, so don’t act like you don’t know what I’m talking about.

Okay. Stories have a way of moving all of us, and I’d like for all of us to journey together. Welcome, my children.

(You heard that sound? I know it probably scared you, sorry about that. That’s the sound we all hear when we transport into stories, and that’s the sound we’re all going to be revisiting through LitTherapy).