Since I was almost as young as I can remember, I took on the role of being the caretaker in my home. Growing up in a drug induced and abusive environment, there was always this inherent need to make sure my mom and my siblings were safe. Even to my own detriment and even if …
I have been delving in and out of the dating world for the past almost 3 years. What a roller coaster, I tell ya! I am learning SO much and I’m mostly thankful for the experiences. And then some days I down right hate it. All of it. The roller coaster sucks. I don’t even …
Ok, I am a Single Mom. But not by the terms that you probably just read that. I just Googled “what is a single mom?” and I can’t even call myself that anymore because the common themes of those definitions don’t fit for me. You see, I live with my former husband, his new wife …
This weekend I had a little surprise visitor that I haven’t had in quite some time… We shall call him Loneliness! After my break up a couple of years ago, I made the decision to sit with my loneliness and make it my friend. Even though it was the most empty, unpleasant, sad and hopeless …
Being single after roughly 20 years of being in a marriage/relationship, and really for the first time in my adult life has been a crazy learning experience and wild adventure. I have learned and am learning so freaking much about myself and what I want that I’m finally in a place where I feel like …
I just got home from a long day, I’m tired and I don’t want to write tonight. I don’t have a plan and I don’t have it all figured out. Welcome to life. Here I am anyway. I was thinking on my drive home about how I didn’t want to write when I got home… …
This is my first post on my new mission of daily blogging! Thank you for being here. I hope you will strap in and stick around for the roller coaster of it all. Today I’m just going to out-pour what’s there… I’ve never done anything like this before, so I presume things will be a …
There is a storm raging inside of me. It has always been there. Only now I face it, head on. I am a strong woman. Fierce. Loyal. Bold. Powerful. Unshakeable. I know my commitments, my values, my stance. I am a woman of integrity. Honest and true. I am a woman who makes mistakes. I …