A New Era.

What better time to reinvent oneself than during a global pandemic, national uprising, and altogether apocalyptic precipice?

With this inaugural blog post on my new website, that as of this date has not been published, I’m bidding a grateful farewell to my old blog. That blog was truly a public kind of diary, capturing so many of my thoughts and experiences through some of the most transformative years of my life. It took good care of me. I launched it not long after I got married and began a new job, one that I still hold today, but in a different sort of way. I had my first kid and a traumatic pregnancy on that blog (a story that I still get messages about) and then I had another kid. I processed the loss of a friend on that blog. Somewhere in there the country went through a political upheaval and I raged on that blog. I will miss it, but I will pick up here where I left off.

We’re all trying to process a lot right now. So much. So. Much. The level of turmoil in the world, in this country, is overwhelming. I suppose in some way the maelstrom around us is cracking me open, and I’m trying to let a new version of myself emerge. One that can handle this torrential time with a little more grace. Calmly, say, and with clarity of purpose. Able to forgive myself for my failures. Ready to be the rock that my kids need me to be, but also ready to let them see me scream and fight when injustice is upon us. Ready to lead with love, finding my way through all the hate.

This blog will likely contain a lot of my journey toward understanding more about the person I’m becoming. If there’s anything I’ve learned since keeping a blog (besides that no one thinks being a blogger is cool anymore), is that I untangle my busy brain through writing. I can verbally articulate things better once I’ve written them down first. I write for me, and occasionally, it helps someone else.

So here will be the new place where I tease out my responses to this rapidly changing universe, through the coexisting lenses of my career, my family, and my general search for meaning. I invite you to join me, as often as you’d like.