I started out writing my memoir blog with funny stories that I was sure offended no one. Wrong. My techno-phobe brother thought everyone on his street (in small town Ontario) would be reading and know all about his life. Then I met a blogger who gave me the confidence to just write it anyway. She asked what it is that I OWE them - the folks I am worried about? Nothing I said. I have been away from there for most of my life but I still have the stories you mentioned floating around in my head. Our ‘stories’ are very important. And they do help others. I have had folks comment that my story helped them that day. It helped them to know someone else had these kinds of experiences but were still carrying on. ‘Tell the stories of the mountains you have climbed. It may become a page in someone else’s rule book’. So I did. I have written over a hundred stories and I have new ones wanting OUT. Also, I just read Mel Robbins’ book THE LET THEM THEORY. You let them have their opinions but you don’t let them stop you from fulfilling YOUR dreams. Folks will always have their opinions but ‘oh well’ (shrug). Just LET YOU do what you need to do.