There are also stories I don’t tell with a laugh.

There are chapters that required me to dig deeper than I ever thought I could. I have known grief.

I’ve experienced loss.
I’ve had to say goodbye to people I desperately wanted to keep.
I’ve experienced the ending of a marriage and the changes that come when the life you knew is no longer the life you’re living.
I’ve faced seasons when I had to ask myself some difficult questions:
Who am I now?
Where do I go from here?
What does my life look like when the plans I had no longer exist?
And perhaps the hardest question of all:
Can I begin again?
The answer, I eventually discovered, was yes.
Not all at once.
Not perfectly.
And certainly not without a few detours.
But one step at a time.