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?
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; this is for the one who stayed through grief, hospital rooms, silence, and everything that followed.
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The Friend Who Stayed
Loyalty is not loud; sometimes it is simply the person who keeps answering, showing up, and remembering you beneath everything life took.
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Before We Knew Loss
A memory of who two friends were before grief taught them how fragile laughter, plans, and ordinary days could become.
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The First Time I Called You Family
Friendship quietly crosses the invisible line into family through years of laughter, heartbreak, ordinary Tuesdays, and choosing one another.
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We Learned Grief Together
Two friends learn grief side by side, discovering that loss does not end so much as permanently change the rhythm of breathing.
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Here’s to the Rest of Our Lives
Two friends learn grief together and keep choosing each other through hospital rooms, cemeteries, laughter, and the years still ahead.
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To Renee
Thirteen years of friendship become proof that family can be chosen in hospital rooms, late-night calls, laughter, and showing up.
Between Bruises & Blooms 