If you found your way here it's probably because something in your life right now is hard in a way that's difficult to explain to most people. Maybe you're loving someone through something that's breaking you. Maybe the life you spent years building just fell apart. Maybe you've always felt like you exist slightly outside of everyone else-present but not quite feeling like you belong.

Maybe you're tired of feeling like you're the only one.

This place is for you. All of it is for you. 

I'm a woman who wanted the ordinary dream - a regular house, a marriage that lasted and some kids. If a Suburban could be in the driveway, even better. I wanted a life that held together. 
I grew up watching relationships fail all around me and I wanted, more than almost anything, to be the one who did it differently. I wanted to build build something that held - stable and ordinary.

It just didn't go that way.

I've been divorced. I've sat in the wreckage of a life I built my whole identity around and had to figure out who I was inside the rubble - with no car, no job, no money and a child to raise.

I've loved a son through addiction, hanging out with "the wrong crowd", juvenile hall, courtrooms and moments so dark I wasn't sure either of us would survive them.

I've spent most of my life feeling like I don't quite fit - too much in some rooms, invisible in others, always slightly outside the easy belonging others seem to find without trying.

I'm a woman who's lived a lot of life outside the white picket fence and now feel the best thing to do with those experiences is to share them - so anyone else who may have found themself outside that same fence knows they're not out there by themselves. 

So this space, all of it is for you.