I just agreed to give my “icebreaker” speech to Toastmasters next Wednesday. It’s a four- to six-minute speech that should help the audience get to know me.

I have only a glimmer of an idea. I’d like to discuss how I got from my history Ph.D. to a career as a writer. It’s an unusual progression, so I think it would interest people.

Or, I could cop out and explain how I became a squirrel lover. I could probably pull out one of my old articles for conversion into a speech.

Which do you vote for? “Historian to writer” or “Evolution of a squirrel lady”?

Hmm. I feel myself easing over to the squirrelly side of things.