“If you're a bird... I'm a bird...”

This blog is titled A Second Life Through Words. It pairs with the URL writerslivetwice, which happens to be one of my favourite quotes because when authors pick up pen and paper, or sit down at a computer, they have the ability to separate from the life they live and write something completely different, a different life, a different story, a different ending.  Writing a story opens a door into a world where everything can be different.  Writing an essay or nonfiction also opens a window for the essayist to reorient her perspective and that of her readers on the world around them.  This blog is my own “Second Life Through Words”; it allows me to have my own alternative world where I share my ideas about literature with readers, and perhaps to give a second life to the works that I am reading and discussing.