How My Memoir 'Flowers Bloom Anyway' Came to Be

When I first started writing Flowers Bloom Anyway, I wasn’t writing a book. I was journaling. I was angry, heartbroken, and trying to survive one of the hardest moments of my life. My husband had just died suddenly, and the pages were a place to pour everything out—grief, confusion, frustration, and exhaustion. I didn’t write with the intention of publishing anything. I just needed somewhere to put all of it.

But as time passed, those raw journal entries evolved. The writing changed as I changed. Slowly, I started seeing the outlines of a bigger story. It wasn’t just about grief. It was about motherhood. It was about entrepreneurship. It was about trying to keep a business alive while keeping myself afloat. It was about figuring out how to be a single mom and a farm owner at the same time.

I started to understand that this wasn’t just my story. It was a story that could resonate with other women who are navigating the impossible. Women who are grieving, rebuilding, raising children, and running businesses. Women who are showing up every day when everything inside of them wants to shut down.

The farm played a huge role in my healing. Sunny Mary Meadow wasn’t just my workplace. It was my therapy. It was structure and purpose when nothing else made sense. Planting, planning, and preparing for bloom season gave me something to hold onto. The act of growing something beautiful in the middle of pain became a form of survival.

The book captures that. It’s not a polished, perfect story. It’s honest. It’s messy in places. But it’s also hopeful. Flowers Bloom Anyway is about the choice to keep going. It’s about rebuilding a life that looks nothing like what you planned but finding meaning in it anyway.

Throughout the writing process, I realized how much I valued community. The people who showed up for me, the customers who kept buying flowers, the friends who sat with me when I couldn’t do anything else. That’s why I created the Bloom Crew. It’s a group of people helping spread the word about the book, pre-ordering it, sharing it with others, and showing support in a way that really matters.

Pre-orders are critical for getting the book onto shelves and into readers’ hands. When you order through Barnes and Noble, it helps push the book into broader circulation and gives it a stronger start. Publishing is a business, and numbers matter.

If you’ve followed my journey through the podcast or on social media, you’ve seen glimpses of this story. The book goes deeper. It’s everything I couldn’t fit into an Instagram caption. It’s the full picture of what this experience has been and what I’ve learned through it.

Flowers Bloom Anyway is available now for pre-order. Thank you for being part of this story.