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  • The Whys

    Some days sadness feels heavy. Other days it’s not sadness at all. It’s exhaustion. The kind that settles into your bones after you’ve spent days fighting battles nobody else can see. The kind that makes simple decisions feel overwhelming and turns every unanswered question into something larger than it probably is. Friday wasn’t about answers.…

  • Am I Enough?

    Most people saw an ordinary Thursday. I saw a woman standing in front of a closet with tears in her eyes, trying to understand why a few extra pounds, a first confession, and the absence of a familiar routine could unravel her so completely. The answer wasn’t really about any of those things. It was…

  • Where Love Stays

    Dave welcomed me into his life with open arms and a smile that made you feel like you belonged. Five years later, I sat beside his bed as his final days unfolded, holding his hand and trying to make sense of the quiet, painful reality of goodbye. This is the story of those final days,…

  • The Roads I Didn’t Walk and the Roots I Grew Instead.

    There were roads I didn’t walk, cities I didn’t move to, risks I didn’t take, chances I let pass because being wanted felt safer than becoming. This is a reflection on attachment, ambition, ADHD, uncertainty, and the tangled roots that grew anyway.

  • When Your Reflection Doesn’t Look Back

    What people don’t see is how much effort it takes to keep myself from disappearing when it’s like this. How every small decision feels weighted. How I bargain with my own body just to stay present. I am not dramatic. I am not fragile. I am fighting something quiet and relentless that knows all my…

  • Finding Peace in Grief: A Journey Through Loss

    There was a moment when I truly believed I had found my footing. Not because everything was resolved, but because something inside me finally felt safe enough to soften. The constant tension eased. My body stopped bracing. I wasn’t chasing peace anymore — I was living inside it. The garden and the kitchen weren’t the…

  • Capturing Inner Truths Through Art and Reflection

    One day, I was perusing reels and came across one that used an AI prompt….Lord knows these things usually turn out ridiculous on their best days, but I decided, why not? This is what it provided me, and when I asked it why it chose this particular image, I felt the description was quite accurate,…

  • Menopause Is Not a Quiet Thing (Even If We’re Forced to Carry It Quietly)

    Menopause isn’t quiet. It reshapes the body, silences you, and can destroy the life around you when pain, intimacy, and survival are misread as betrayal.

  • 2025: The Year I Learned How to Live Inside Myself

    In February, my body crossed a line I didn’t know how to prepare for. Surgical menopause didn’t arrive as a single event; it arrived as a reckoning, layered with a complexity no one had fully warned me about. Looking back now, I realize I’d been moving through perimenopause for years, unknowingly carrying its subtle shifts,…

  • A Decade of Birthdays: Our Family’s Favorite Chocolate Peanut Butter Cake

    Skip to Recipe ↓ For nearly ten years, this cake has been at the center of our birthday celebrations. Paula Deen’s Old Fashioned Chocolate Cake with Peanut Butter Frosting quickly became a family treasure, especially for two of my children, who ask for it year after year. No matter how many candles are glowing, its…