The greatest love stories are not always written between lovers. Sometimes they’re written between two women who refused to let each other face life alone.
How Do You Introduce Home?
How Do You Introduce Home?
There are friendships that fill the quiet spaces in your life.
And then there are the ones that become part of who you are.
Renee has been my best friend for over thirteen years.
Together, we’ve celebrated births. We’ve buried children. We’ve survived heartbreak, distance, motherhood, grief, healing, and everything life has placed in our path.
Somewhere along the way, she stopped being “my best friend.”
She became my sister.
My chosen family.
My wife.
My home.
This page is for her.
Every poem here tells a piece of our story.
Some are joyful.
Some are heartbreaking.
Some are nothing more than moments I never want to forget.
Because the greatest love story of my life isn’t a romantic one.
It’s the story of finding someone who chose to stay.
Again and again.
No matter what.
Begin Here
Every friendship has a beginning.
This is ours.
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The One Who Stayed
Some people arrive like seasons, beautiful, necessary, but always meant to leave. You never did. You stayed. When the world grew quiet, when grief swallowed whole conversations, when there were no words left worth saying— you stayed. You stood beside me through hospital rooms and empty nurseries. Through birthdays that hurt and anniversaries that stole…
Between Bruises and Blooms 