Anytime we write about ourselves or the people who share our lives, we make choices about what to say and what not to say. These choices can be a powerful source of insight into what is acceptable and not acceptable to our society, to our families and to ourselves. In this class, we’ll share with each other our thinking process as we decide what to put in our essays and what to leave out. The instructor believes that personal writing is enhanced when writers learn to make these decisions consciously and thoughtfully.