About me

Pull up a chair. The lamp is on, and there is always something on the record player.

Hi, I'm Marigold. Well, not really. This is an anonymous little corner of the internet, but you can call me Marigold. Here, I'm just a human on a park bench, and you're a human too. I'm a soul, you're a soul, and for a moment our paths cross.

I'm a lot like many women you know. Somewhere along the way I picked up a few big roles, and I love the life that came with them.

Each one asked me to set down a version of myself. Some of those goodbyes were hard, and most of them taught me something I needed. I don't have it all figured out. I just know there was a woman here before the titles, and she still has things to say.

So this is where I say them. If you are somewhere in the middle of your own becoming, you are welcome here, exactly as you are.

Why "Write to Live"

Somewhere between all the roles I carry, I made myself one promise: I would never stop writing. It is part of who I am, something that makes me happy and proud, and something I can always call my own. Listening to you and writing back comes from that same place, so it never feels like a weight. When life gets full, I close the bench for a while, because everyone deserves a boundary, me included. Then I open it again.

We are all just playing the cards we were dealt.

Marigold