The Long Record

I have lived a long and layered life. It has been shaped by service and motherhood. There have been difficult passages and unexpected turns. I have always made the steady decision to keep moving ahead.

For many years, my story lived mostly in memory and private journals. I began this blog to leave an honest record for my children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. I want them to know who I was beyond the roles I carried.

Here you will not find embellishment or speculation. I write the facts as I remember them, along with what those years taught me and what has endured. Life rarely unfolds in straight lines. My life was no exception. Clarity often arrives when we are finally ready to see it.

I do not write to settle scores or rewrite the past. I write to bear witness to a fully lived life — its hardships, its lessons, its humor, and its grace.

If these words offer perspective to those who come after me, then this record has done its work.