Who I Am and Where I’m Going

An Introvert’s Introduction

Hi. I’m S.E. Waters. I want to share some background about myself with you before I really delve deeper into any one of these topics.

The author in their element

I would consider the themes and events I mention in this article to be my “subjects”- the things I come back to, try as I might to avoid or run away from them, time and again in my writing.

I might as well start writing about them.

I grew up in New Albany, Indiana, a small but growing town, even then. I was born in Louisville, Kentucky, and I credit the proximity of the city and the amount of time I spent there with the kind of person I am today.

My parents were high school sweethearts (I know).

I attended the same high school that my parents, aunts, uncles, and cousins went through. My gym teacher coached my dad in football in the 70s so, yeah, it was a small, tight-knit community.

I attended Catholic grade school and high school, and attended Mass weekly for the majority of my first eighteen years.

I have great memories of hanging out with my cousins on both sides of the family. My grandmother on my dad’s side had a sweet little ranch with some acreage we could explore, and a creek full of red clay, which my cousins and I would dig up…