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I was born during hurricane season on the Gulf Coast and spent decades learning that surviving ain’t the same as living.
Here you’ll find stories about grief, resilience, motherhood, healing, and life along the Gulf Coast.
Some will make you laugh.
Some may leave you sitting quietly with your coffee a little longer.
Either way, I'm glad you're here.
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Beyond the Front Porch, I help individuals, businesses, and organizations tell meaningful stories and build clear systems through legacy writing, memoir collaboration, ghostwriting, and operational documentation.


Some things start as words because you don’t know yet that they’re supposed to be a song. “My Girl” lived on a page for years. Now those words have a melody, and a new name: Between 65 and You.