I wake up and say THANK YOU for living and loving, laughing, learning, giving and growing. For seeing and believing, caring and sharing. For daring and fearing and feeling,  having and holding, healing and eating. For needing and knowing, trusting and reading. For telling and talking, and just being. For the sun and stars above,  and the grass below between my toes, and the beauty that exists perfectly so. For yellow, red, green, and blue - all the perfect shade, the perfect

The feeling of freedom is sweeter than I remembered it. I've regained the bounce in my step and I feel it while I'm walking with the sun on my face, the music in my ears, and a renewed lightness in my spirit that I haven't felt for years because I am FREE. I am free because I'm no longer trapped in a relationship which made me unhappy and with a person who was narcissistic and controlling. I am free from his Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde personality and the ongoing drama that was consu

My stories are written with love from Italy. They are about courage, love, and what’s right for me. They’re about challenging norms and living dreams in reality as they are meant to be. They’re written with truth, experience, and authenticity as a recount of actuality rather than a perfect-ending fairy tale fantasy as you might expect it to be. I spent eight years in a bank with an adequate salary and moderate rank. It was thought by many to be valued, to be stable, to be gre