A Confession / A Welcome

In perhaps the least professional manner possible, I am simply starting. I haven’t planned for weeks or months, haven’t plotted out my purpose, determined my target audience, scheduled a specific time for writing and posting… I am just going to do it. Write. Because if I wait until I have checked off every “Do These Things Before You Publish a Blog” item, I will never just write. I will be distracted by not planning properly, or wording things succinctly, or using too many ellipses…

In this space stories will just show up. There won’t likely be a pattern or schedule or timeline to them… they’re just glimpses of my life that have shaped me, for the good or the bad. Some will be quite hard to read and contain subjects for which I’ll provide content warnings at the beginning. Other will be simply silly, as at this point in my life I have finally learned to laugh at myself genuinely rather than preemptively.

My hope is that you will be entertained a bit, comforted a bit, made to feel a bit less alone in your pain, perhaps challenged a bit to love yourself more. If I had to come up with a goal I suppose it would be this: that in my storytelling, you might find a friend who is on your side, a raucous cheerleader for all your huge and tiny accomplishments, and a reminder that you belong and the world is a better place because you’re here.

I’m so glad you’re here.