On being present at the end of three lives — and why it changed everything I make.

Everything here is real. I promise. I’ll tell you who I am when the time is right. Every single word. I promise. ❤️ Until then: everything I write here, I mean. When the time is right — and it will be — I will step forward fully. I will tell you my name. I will show you my face. I will connect every word here to the person who wrote it, and I think when that moment comes it will make sense in a way that might actually be more meaningful than if I had simply introduced myself

If you found this place, I think you were supposed to. That is not a marketing line. I don't say it to make you feel special in the hollow way the internet sometimes tries to make you feel special. I say it because of the specific kind of person who tends to find her way here — and because I have learned, in the last few years, to trust that the right things arrive at the right time. This is Poppy & Evergreen. It is named for my two children —the reason I do all of it and the