First Post: "Anniversary Day"
I started my DroptheMask blog in 2011 at 25 years old during a painful divorce and child custody battle. Writing became my therapy—a way to process life's challenges, rediscover myself, and support others facing their own struggles. Inspired by my original mission, I continue to "drop the mask" of insecurity, expectations, and fear, believing that authenticity is where healing begins.
Because this blog was written in real time as my life unfolded, I encourage you to read it chronologically—from the oldest post to the newest—to experience the journey as it happened. Start with this first post, "Anniversary Day" from January 2011, then continue in order by either scrolling up to the next blog post or clicking the "Next Post Here" link at the end of each post. Follow along through my first year of divorce, healing, and self-discovery.
"Till We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis.~~~ C.S. Lewis chose "Till We Have Faces" as the title of his story because it referenced a quotation from the book by Orual, "How can [the gods] meet us face to face till we have faces?" He defended his choice of title by describing the novel's importance to the human condition in a letter to Dorothea Conybeare, explaining that the idea behind the title was that a human being must become real before it can expect to receive any message from divine beings; "that is, it must be speaking with its own voice (not one of its borrowed voices), expressing its actual desires (not what it imagines that it desires), being for good or ill itself, not any mask."
