A Road Less Traveled

How does one define a "good" writing experience? To me, anything that gets the job done would be a good experience. Writing a letter, composing a story, or just a little note to say, "I love you," can all be successful ventures. Personally, I usually prefer the latter; however, in a lifetime, I feel the awful experiences are the ones that often stand out. Consequently, before I learned about the many benefits writing can bestow, I absorbed one very hard lesson. Perhaps the most embarrassing time of my life, and one that has remained with me until now and conceivably forever, was the spring of 1993, the year I was "academically" dismissed.…