I'm Asha Loupe, and apparently at some point in my life I decided that writing down my experiences and sharing them with complete strangers was a perfectly reasonable thing to do.
I'm a wife, mom, social worker, and now an author. Although I still find that last one a little strange to say out loud.
I've always been someone who looks at life from several different directions, sometimes all at once, which can make things interesting, especially when I'm trying to explain what's going on in my head. I have a tendency to question things, look at the different sides of a situation, and find humor in moments where maybe laughing isn't necessarily what people expect.
My writing reflects a lot of that. It's personal, sometimes uncomfortable, sometimes funny, and not always wrapped up in a neat little lesson at the end. Because life doesn't work that way, at least mine certainly hasn't.
My first memoir, Two Things Can Be True: A Memoir of Hope, Humor, and Everything in Between, came from wanting to share my experiences without pretending that everything has to be either good or bad. Sometimes people hurt us and we still love them. Sometimes we survive something difficult and still find ourselves laughing about something completely ridiculous five minutes later.
And while this book is a big part of my story, it isn't the only story I hope to tell.
I'm still figuring things out, still learning, and probably still asking more questions than I have answers to. But that's part of who I am, and I don't really see that changing anytime soon.