Myself

“Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wonder about what makes the Universe exist. Be curious. And however difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at. It matters that you don’t just give up.”

-Stephen Hawking

There’s little in the world other than writing that has always felt natural, comfortable and familiar to me. Putting words on paper comes easily, the open page is where I feel most at home, most myself. Ideas emerge- where once there was nothing, suddenly there is something new (or reimagined).

I am creating this space as a place to share reflections on books I’ve read, places I’ve been, experiences that have changed me (for better or worse), and to hopefully inspire some conversation around ideas, large and small: in short, let’s chat about life and other things.

I am a mother and a teacher. I am a reader, runner, thinker and writer of words. I typically say that I am a jack of all trades and a master of none. I like to try a little bit of everything, learning and collecting new ideas and experiences along the way. This will be a hodge podge of ideas and creations that may or may not be related, but will always have some meaning for me, and I hope for someone else out there in this great wide world, too.

It has taken me a long, long time to feel brave enough to get started. Thankfully, I’m here now and I have a good feeling about this year being the year that writing becomes not a thing I wish I did, but an art in which I am fully present and through which I am able to share my ideas and experiences.