Welcome.
WOMAN. WIFE. WRITER. WANDERER. WONDERER.
(I like alliteration, is it obvious?)
I dropped out of college to travel the world. I spent a couple years as an au pair in Ireland; served at an orphanage in Kenya; dished out coffee in Portland and NYC; and bounced around Europe throughout my twenties.
I'm now a stay-at-home mom to three *young* kids (with a fourth on the way).
and in the latter half era of answering Hemingway's call to: "Live it up so you can write it down." (Yes, I took that quote personally when I first read it nearly two decades ago.)
Current writing projects:
-Editing the first draft of my first novel.
-Building a community - on here and on Substack. (Follow me!)
-Hosting Freedom in a Fetter Letter Club.
Why "Freedom in a Fetter?"
Flashback to Portland, OR. Circa 2012.
I was walking to my coffee shop job in rain soaked shoes with headphone’s dangling around my ears, listening to Sufjan Steven’s cover of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing.
“Let Thy goodness, like a fetter, bind my wandering heart to Thee.”
I was wrestling with the idea of faith seeming like a ball and chain - holding me back. But if I’m to be tied to God’s goodness, shouldn’t it be freeing?
The same goes for marriage and motherhood and whatever other commitments we make out of the spark of love. We are bound to these things. And sometimes we give into the exhaustion and see these gifts as burdens that bind us, not fetters that free us to truly love.
My goal here with The Letter Club is to encourage you to see the magic in the mundane.
Each month you will receive an intentionally crafted letter from me, and a postcard featuring an original photograph of my own, in hopes to help you find the awe in this extraordinarily ordinary life.
