My daughter and I went down to our local children's museum the other day. I ended up chatting with another mom while our kids played together. This mom and I had never met, and she asked an interesting question... "so what's your story?"

Now, there is context that helps this question make sense. I use a wheelchair due to a spinal cord injury that happened way back in my college days. There's an obvious reason to ask.

The interesting part of her question is that I can't think of a time when a stranger asked about my injury in a way that gave me a way out of answering directly. I knew exactly what she was referring to, and it didn't bother me, but my life story involves much more than my injury. I could've answered in many different ways and it would've been fine.

Typically the question I get is "what happened to you?" While more direct, it's a little awkward coming from people I don't know.

"What's your story?" can be asked of anyone.

We all have stories.

It's a good question.