This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) 🎧 Listen while you read: “Real Love Body by Father John MitsyFor moments when love feels like home—not perfect, but present, steady, and quietly revolutionary. https://open.spotify.com/track/0Z57YWES04xGh3AImDz6Qr?si=5054478d4c284e3e Mira's Story: The Reckoning of UsWhat… Continue reading Chapter Thirty: The Reckoning of Us
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: The SpiralThe weekend was supposed to be a retreat. Instead, it turned into a reckoning. A small rental by the coast, nothing extravagant just a quiet, sun-drenched cabin… Continue reading Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Spiral
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: The Inner CircleA backyard fire, a borrowed story, and the moment she saw where she might fit Rowan didn’t make a big deal of it, he never did.… Continue reading Chapter Twenty-Six: The Inner Circle
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: Between the BellsTwo worlds, one heartbeat Mira always said she had two lives. The one with her students, sharp-edged and humming, all bells and deadlines and the low thrum of… Continue reading Chapter Twenty-Four: Between the Bells
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: Showing UpShowing up meanings showing up in all the ways, not only when it's soft, not only when it's pretty, not only when it feels good Mira didn’t have anywhere… Continue reading Chapter Twenty-Two: Showing Up
Chapter This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) 🎧 Listen while you read: "Dopamine" by Frac MoodyFor the moment someone walks into your world and makes your whole nervous system sit up and say: Oh. It’s you. https://open.spotify.com/track/38MS1Ch2ckFL4O29UVg7Nh?si=83f880c14c1a4aba Mira's… Continue reading Chapter Twenty: The Friend Test
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: Known and NoticedWhere love invites you to stay with yourself Mira woke before her alarm, sunlight stretching long and low across her bedroom wall. She didn’t reach for her phone… Continue reading Chapter Sixteen: Known and Noticed
This is Mira’s story — part fiction, part reflection, wholly honest.(Each chapter will end with a note from her writing, signed as your trusted friend.) Mira's Story: The Whisper Before the SilenceThe soft unraveling before everything changes, when you feel it before you know it. Cole came in quiet. Not the kind of quiet that… Continue reading Chapter One: The Whisper Before the Silence
Lately, my dating experience has been frustrating—some connections have come close to working out, some were completely wrong, and others ended before they even had a chance to develop. To be honest, I've been hesitant to even step back into the dating world. My last serious relationship was emotionally draining, leaving me fiercely protective of… Continue reading Navigating Modern Dating: Lessons Learned
There’s something magical about those dates where everything feels just right—effortless conversation, natural chemistry, and a shared sense of excitement for what might come next. I recently had one of those dates. He was handsome, intelligent, and we clicked instantly. We talked for hours, discussing everything from our favorite books to potential future plans. There… Continue reading When Chemistry Isn’t Enough in Dating
