Conversational U-Turns: Musings from a Recovering Anthropologist

<p>Sometimes the personal GPS is not working right. Sometimes you have to take a U-turn, Sometimes one U-turn is not enough. In the next 1.5K words, there will be many twists and turns as I explore honesty and lies in everyday conversations with you.</p> <p>Let me start with a few disclaimers and an introduction. I thought honesty was better than dishonesty. I thought I lived honestly at least 90% of the time. I thought I warned people of potential social potholes when driving by me in easy breezy encounters. These three thoughts are the reasons for my TMI introduction at first contact. I will often tell people when they meet me that I am a recovering anthropologist, unabashed linguist by training, Trekkie, book owner, cat lover, fairy tale fanatic, and knitaholic. Perhaps some people see me as Goldilocks type given how many people I have visited but perhaps that is not quite fair to the unwitting bears subjected to my intrusions into their homes.</p> <p><a href="https://medium.com/@elizabethannespreng/conversational-u-turns-a0e9fb8abedf"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>