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Hi, I'm Darian...

Hi, I'm Darian. I'm a wife, a mom, a homemaker, a daughter, a sister, a friend - and a woman who didn't arrive here in a straight line.  For a long time, I thought life was something to figure out if I just tried hard enough. If I was just good enough. Kind enough. Enchanting enough. Pretty enough. Fun enough. If I had enough substance. Intelligence. If I was memorable. I spent years striving, pushing, chasing a version of myself I thought I was supposed to be to a be a woman of worth. I had to be - not me. But along the way I made stupid choices, made more mistakes than I care to count -- some small, some not so small. The kinds that just ruin a day or could ruin your life. The kind that could have taken a life into a wide range of very different directions.   In some ways, they did.  But, here I am.  It's not because I got everything right. Or because somehow I'm a better person now than I was at any other point of my life. Or smarter. Or less likely to make s...