My name is Erin Franklin-Cato (Franklin is my father’s name, Cato is my husband’s name, but my first name is mine). I am 30 years old and I am figuring out how to be my own woman. I am a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister, a friend, and an educator. I am swimming in identities now, but I used to drown in them. I have an amazing therapist that is helping me reclaim myself. This website holds my secrets, my thoughts, my emotions, and my epiphanies. 

This a true story about me: 

I am the culmination of my ancestors’ stories, my present pain, and my future glory

I am the roadmap for my children 

I am doctrine

I am filled to the brim with love 

I used to feel filled to the brim with trauma

I am his dream even when I act like his nightmare

I am a conduit of knowledge

I am a creator

I am the daughter of the pillar of fire

I am a frenzy

I am uncontrollable and often inconsolable

I am a stream that blossoms into a river

My current is strong, but graceful

I am an unwritten scripture

I am a library

I am a fossil, but my fire hasn’t been frozen in time

I am obsidian

I am flesh from the earth

I am dirty and intolerable

I am a tremor

I remove sand from under your feet

I am a movement

I am a disruption

I am a source of life and truth

I am the monster under a bed of lies

I am a lighthouse, folks should warn you about me

I have been this girl since the beginning

I will have the same spark at the end.