I didn’t plan this career. I survived my way into it.

People look at my resume and see a lot of different jobs. Paralegal. 911 dispatcher. Healthcare content writer. Accounts receivable. And yes, before all of that — a kid who wanted to be a family law attorney and a judge, driven by a bone-deep need to protect people who couldn’t protect themselves.

What looks scattered from the outside is actually a map.

I’ve stood inside every institution that touches a family in crisis. I’ve taken the call when everything fell apart. I’ve navigated the medical system as a patient — not a professional, a patient — when I was diagnosed with breast cancer and had to learn, fast, how to advocate for myself in a language that wasn’t designed for me. I’ve sat with legal documents as a paralegal and understood, intimately, what happens when plain language gives way to jargon and a client loses the thread of their own case.

All of that became The Big B Word — my legal content writing practice built specifically for family law attorneys who want their content to do more than fill a page.

I write for the client who is Googling at midnight trying to understand what “discovery” means. For the parent who doesn’t know if they can afford to fight. For the person who needs to feel, before they ever pick up the phone, that your firm understands what they’re going through.

I know that person. I’ve been that person. And I know how to write for her.

When I’m not writing, I’m working on a memoir called Unearned — an exploration of conditional love, survival, and what we owe ourselves when no one taught us we were worth fighting for. It turns out writing your own story is excellent training for writing other people’s.

I’m based in Abilene, Texas. I work with family law attorneys across the country.