A friend old enough to have been in my circle for several decades recently had the following four words of wisdom for me: New chapter, same book.

So while, we can’t start a whole new book at midlife, there is always room for a new chapter. This chapter for me involves rebranding my creative work. This work is varied and vast. I was twenty-five when I received my first business card with the title staff writer. During that chapter, I was a tenacious single mom intrepid enough to work as a small town journalist. Other seasons of my life had me publishing a memoir and exhibiting some poetry. I sought out other writers and found my tribe and a changing voice.

Somewhere in there I created a blog that started as a linguistic look at the words we use and how those shape our lives. It has evolved over the past five years to a spiritual blog that is a sweet mix of the secular and sacred. I have grown enough in my faith, that I am comfortable saying I am a Christian writer.

So, with confidence ever lacking, now found, I am rebranding to A Seasoned Writer. For this new chapter, this reinvention of me as a brand, I am all of it. I own my history. Evolve. To grow and change. To adapt. I am evolving as an artist, as a Christian, as a woman, as a mother, as a wife, as a friend.

Thanks for walking with me through these words. I am beyond grateful for readers who have become fans and fans who have become friends. For this chapter of my life, I am content to practice. If you are along for the view welcome and thank you.

Life’s too short to be the person today who you were yesterday. I cannot get lost in nostalgia or regret. I can only embrace the theory of evolution and that I am adapting every day, growing, and changing. Over and over again.

“For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven.” Ecclesiastes 3:1