In another life, I was a wedding photographer and I was pretty good at it. It was honestly the best medium for me to tell a story. I’m a very visual person and light, in all it’s incarnations, is magic to me.

I miss it often, but going back to it is not an option. That chapter ended along with a painful part of my story. But growth most often happens in the most painful and visceral ways. There are rarely cameras there to capture those moments.

It’s time to tell stories in a more complete way. My stories. Very few are beautiful, but I hope that changes along the way. I want to find the beauty in the worst of it, if I can.

I hope they will mean something to someone out there as well.

~ a.l.l.