My Story

Hey, I'm Sara.  And I run this town...okay, just this blog. But it's something, right?  I guess you could say the purpose of this blog is to let everyone back home keep up with my comings and goings, as well as, give me a outlet to vent, laugh, cry or get creative.

Over the course of two months, I graduated college, got married and moved 500 miles away from the only place I have ever called home.  That was May-July of 2013, so here I am in Northwest Arkansas, the home of Walmart. So you might be wondering, just how did you end up in the land of Walmart?  I thought you'd never ask.

I was born about 22 years ago in southwest Louisiana-where the piney woods meets the coastal plains.  And lived there for 21 and a half years.  I called my grandparents MawMaw and PawPaw, can pronounce Atchafalaya, piquant and maque choux-its safe to say that, not genetically Cajun, I'm a cultural Cajun.  However, I was also raised on the fundamentals of the South: where everything's a Coke, porches are for sitting and "Bless You Heart" is fighting words. I love Louisiana and it's the only place I can really call home.

My husband, Douglas, had a similar upbringing and we met in elementary school and started dating in high school.   Since November 12, 2007 he's had my heart, and we got married on June 15, 2013.  Doug is my best friend, and my other half.  Our relationship already spans half a decade and we have truly grown up together. Following our wedding, we decided to move to Rogers, Arkansas, to spend a year or so close to his older brother (who happen to be married to a cousin of mine--trust me, it's not weird).  He works as a nurse at a hospital up here and I design news pages at Northwest Arkansas Media.

So that's how we got here.  That's who I am and this is my life: Far From Home.