THIS STORY MARKS MY STORYTELLING DEBUT. RECORDED BY TODD LESTER AT THE ODDITORIUM IN ASHEVILLE, NC ON MARCH 9, 2016. THE THEME OF THE NIGHT WAS “JOBS.”

 “I decided to become a hospice volunteer when I realized that, for a woman in her early thirties who does not work in a morgue, an emergency room, or a homicide unit, I have witnessed and experienced an inordinate amount of death and dying.”