Oh, you’re here!  I’m glad you’re with me. I really don’t want to be here alone. I’ve been waiting to talk to you, excited to tell you things I have discovered in an unexplored place.

Five decades passed without me attending much to this place. It was not good. But I was “fine”, skipping along in my ignorance.

Well. No. Not really.

Life had just taken over and getting through the day was easier than looking into that place.

Then something happened.

The unknown place was breached, thrown wide open.  It was looked at, looked away from, looked at again, and then befriended.  With just the smallest amount of care, the most desolate of places started growing into a garden, with beauty spilling over!

I’m Liz.  I live in Dallas with my husband and am a mom to 2 grown kids.  I wrote a special blog about 6 years ago.  It was about my journey taking care of my brother who had Down Syndrome, Alzheimer’s and was declining.  I loved writing about the 2 of us and our experiences.  Sharing the last years of his life via that blog became a sacred space for me.

Since then, I’ve thought often of how much I missed blogging.  I missed sharing. There was hesitation to write again because I didn’t have my special brother to hide behind.

If I did this again I’d be the only one there on the page.  Just me.  That didn’t seem like it was enough.  Then I hid out in the unexplored place.  And now I know it is enough.

My goal for “To Be Known” is to go to deep places in life along with the not-so-deep places.

I’m glad you’ve joined me on this journey.

Liz