Life Lately
Where do I start?
I’ve done this a million times. But today will be different, right? Because I’ve decided it will. Because I really think timing is cosmic and exhausting and right, when the world allows it to be. When we allow it to. Actually, I guess that’s sort of what I’m doing here. Being led and letting go. It only took me thirty years. But I feel younger now than I ever have. I must have lived 100 years before I turned fifteen.
So, here goes. Starting over is exhilarating and humiliating, but what sweet thing isn’t? Love, birth, revenge, growth. I don’t mind the embarrassing bits most days.
The basics are simple enough. I’m Savannah. I’m thirty (a Scorpio), I’ve been married to my husband Joh (like Joe, but with an h) since 2020, and we have two kids, Griffin and Sophia. I happen to like them a lot.
We live in South Carolina, but we grew up in small town, Alabama. I’m never without my Canon G16 or a Diet Coke. A perfect day for me is overpriced coffee in the sunshine with no real agenda, just thrift shops and windows down. Twinkling lights at Christmastime are a core feature of my personality, as are lemon trees, old paintings, MySpace, flowers, a little known artist named Taylor Swift, and the color (right now) royal blue. I draw sometimes. I love a beautiful home and a real one, too. Thai coconut soup is my favorite food. And I’ve never met a raw onion I liked.
I’m taking a deep breath and pretending I don’t have impostor syndrome. This is me starting. Again and again and again.
