What is your word? Elizabeth Gilbert's Eat, Pray, Love, a memoir of her yearlong quest to find herself, concluded with Gilbert's discovery of the one word that embodies her: attraversiamo, Italian for "let's cross over." Though Gilbert's journey ended with this enlightenment, my voyage commences with it. This challenge to present oneself succinctly is fitting in an increasingly digitized world where interests are translated into "likes" and thoughts are condensed into 140 characters. Telling my story is difficult enough in a...