Storytelling Circles: A story for a story

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Last year, Verna and I joked about starting a podcast where we could record all the things we have to say. At the time, it was a dream rooted in humor—because really, who has the time? But why a podcast, you ask? As sisters, Verna and I have always connected through conversation. We have shared life as sisters, mothers, and women, navigating all the joys, challenges, and unexpected adventures that come our way. No matter the distance between us—whether it was when I left for college, when she met her soulmate and got married, when we went from being a ten-minute walk apart to a four-hour drive, and now an entire ocean away—we have always found our way back to each other through storytelling. We talk almost every day. You might wonder what we could possibly have left to talk a