My Story: A (Re)Introduction

Blessedly, my story isn’t plagued with instances of how I was told that I’d never amount to anything or that I was less than. It was the exact opposite. I was the girl that even strangers believed in.

One of my earliest memories goes back to a day kindergarten during naptime. My teacher, Ms. Garcia, summoned for me to leave my red/white/blue, slightly torn mat, and come to her. Though I can’t recall what we talked about, I vividly remember the feeling that I got after she’d hugged me. It left the impression that that was what a hug from one’s favorite aunt should feel like.

Another goes back to fourth grade, having a teacher that looked like a broom rider with the hairy pimple and all. Second chances were as foreign to her as dublin coddle is to me. We were the only class in the entire wing that didn’t have a student hall monitor, a temporary class monitor, or candy for good behavior. I’ll call her Ms. K. And in Ms. K’s class, students were well-versed in their unwritten role and expectations as a child. In all her meanness, even she chose me to read for 15 minutes per day every day. Never got an explanation, a pat on the head or anything. Regardless, I was still honored.

These experiences followed me all throughout school (and life). Though I made decisions as a young adult that disappointed many, including myself, and redirected the outlined course that I’d written for my life, I still made it. And “making it,” for me, was being able to genuinely love my life without having to dread going to work; being able to feel, all the time, the way I do when journaling; getting married to my soulmate and raising kids who would be afforded more creative opportunities than I could have ever (day)dreamed of; and traveling–a lot!

That’s my life. The only thing that I can do now is go Higher. I knew that there were other women out there just like me (afterall, I was reading about them), and I attract more of those women everyday. So I wanted to create a community for us to be able to share what we do, how we feel and what we need.