Inside Higher Ed‘s Mama PhD just finished reading Betsy Hearne and Roberta Seelinger Trite’s new book A Narrative Compass: Stories that Guide Women’s Lives and considers her own bedrock stories.

My own narrative compass may be The Mill on the Floss or, perhaps, another sibling story; I’m not sure yet. What I do know is that I’m shaping it right now, even as it shapes me.