Welcome to my safe space
Hello and welcome to A Girl and a Keyboard —a place that I’ve dreamed of creating for so long, yet never truly believed I could. And yet, here we are. My heart is a little nervous, my fingers are trembling as they type this first sentence, and there’s a quiet hope that you’ll feel something—anything—as you read these words. Let me take you on a small journey into the heart of why this blog exists and what it means to me. A Girl and a Keyboard is a space where I can finally be myself, raw and unfiltered, in a way that I never thought I could before. It’s the beginning of a journey—both as a writer and as someone who’s learning to embrace their own voice. The journey of writing, of sharing pieces of my heart through words, is one I’ve put off for so long. Part of me always feared that I wasn’t ready, that I wasn’t good enough, that my voice didn’t matter. It’s funny, isn’t it? How we can believe in the beauty of stories, in the magic that books hold, yet sometimes not believe ...