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About Me — Alaina
I am many things — the most vulnerable is writer
I am many things — wife, mother, accountant, book lover, feminist, gym rat, but none have I ever wanted to be as much as writer.
The trip has been long and bumpy to get here to this moment of penning an about me, the writer. I do have a degree in English Writing, but left behind any dreams of writing when depression, a young marriage, and the reality of student loan debt had me pivot to my other degree — accounting. Don’t worry, I’m not as “creative” when filing taxes as I am when writing a story.
I began writing again after one of those big moments in life when your very molecules rearrange: I became a mother. When I looked into my baby’s little face I questioned who I wanted to be, not just for him, but for me, too. I picked up my pen and I started writing consistently, as consistently as the mother of a young child and full-time career woman can.
When I decide to pursue something I typically go hard. I’m not just an accountant, I’m a CPA. I don’t just work out occasionally, I weightlift, regularly pushing my limits. In those areas of my life, pushing the limits is easier than writing. Writing reveals a vulnerability that is just hard and probably why I’ve shied away from truly pursuing it in the past. But I am here now, trying to go as hard as I can.
I’m still trying to find my voice and I frog hop from topic to topic, which includes parenting, pop culture, politics, feminism, health, and nature. I think what drives me most to write is to find my voice, and that I deserve, just like any human, to have a voice. I’ve spent much of my life a quiet observer, more willing to dive into the make-believe worlds of books than the real world. Well, I want to use my voice now and I want to create. So that’s what I’m going to do here.
