For a very long time now, I have worked.  Work work work.  I started in my mid-teens as a McDonald’s cashier, eventually rising to manager for a while, then branching out into the worlds of retail, customer service, tech call center, office administration, event planning, even physical therapy and manufacturing.  Wherever I could find a job with a steady paycheck, that’s where you’d find me.

After about 15 years of changing my hair color to any shade on the natural spectrum, it was finally time to go rogue.  Despite warnings against, I dyed my hair fuchsia a couple months ago.  Bright.  Mother-effing.  Pink.

Fiercely Serene isn’t just a mashing together of two contradictory words.  My personal mantra was born out of a very difficult time.  It was my very last day living in Chicago, just before I left the dust of an ugly divorce behind, that I found myself at Soul Pose.  Here’s what I had to say about the event back then, and how it started to set me up for the life I’m currently living.

You’re in for a treat.

Because this is just the beginning.  The first post of an exciting new chapter in my life.  I’m moving forward and doing my best to not look back.  So much has happened already…  This blog is months too late to capture the beginning of my journey, but I’ll do my best to make up for it!  And of course, there’s everything yet to come…

But first, why Fiercely Serene?