The Story Behind the Stories
— MY BEGINNING —
Hi, I’m Myrna—artist, memoirist, and storyteller.
I am a seasoned woman entering a new chapter of life, not to slow down, but to create with greater intention and freedom. I am an unpublished writer for now, but I have always been a writer—and always will be. I am embracing what I call my power years.
I write from the quiet corners of memory, where truth and imagination live. My stories draw from real life—its pain, its miracles, its resilience—and find meaning in the moments that stay with us forever. Blending autobiography and fiction, I explore love, loss, endurance, and the beauty of being human. Every story is an act of remembering and reimagining—a way of turning the personal into something timeless.
Every story has a beginning. Mine was shaped by creativity, faith, motherhood, loss, and a lifetime of showing up for others. Writing is how I honor what I lived, endured, what continues to unfold—and the quiet fire that lives inside me: to write, to remember, to heal.
My journey as a storyteller began when I was ten years old. Inspired by a photograph of my baby brother sitting in his toy car with his teddy bear, I created a wanted poster for a class assignment, complete with a wild tale to match. That was the spark. I was hooked. From that moment on, I became a collector of moments—gathering memories to stay connected to my past, understand who I am, honor what I value, and keep believing in tomorrow.
After graduating from art school, I followed a creative life filled with challenges and joys. I weathered a career, marriage, motherhood, divorce, unemployment, and an empty nest, with faith and tears—but nothing prepared me when cancer entered my life.
The diagnosis left me numb and stripped my defenses.
When cancer entered my life, it tore away the version of myself I thought I understood. In the quiet, between treatments, my thoughts came to a stop, replaying my life with fierce honesty—revisiting every choice, every compromise, every unanswered longing.
I wasn’t just fighting cancer. I was confronting myself.
Who am I? How did I get here?
For as long as I can remember, I felt different. Quiet. Observant. Deeply sensitive. My mind was always dreaming, imagining, and building—noticing what others missed and feeling what others did not. Over the years, I was told I was too sensitive, too unfocused, and worked too many things at once. I wondered if loving many paths meant I belonged nowhere.
Cancer changed my life story.
My restlessness was not a lack of direction—it was orientation. I wasn’t meant for a single destination. I was designing a creative journey.
I came to understand myself as a multipassionate and highly sensitive person—someone who processes life deeply, creatively, and intuitively. What I once believed were flaws revealed themselves as strengths: empathy, adaptability, insight, and connection. Sensitivity became my anchor. Curiosity became my compass. And my strengths—they are my gifts—my superpowers.
Nearly a decade later, cancer-free, I look back with gratitude.
Adversity tested me.
Multipassions carried me.
Sensitivity shaped me.
Faith sustained me.
Today, I stand here—surviving, thriving, and sharing.
I had to dig deep into the core of my beliefs — and found the warrior in me.
— MY ART —
My art explores the emotional landscape between light and shadows—where vulnerability and strength coexist. I use light and shadow to reflect the human spirit and convey emotion—revealing both mystery and meaning.
Working with paint, pencil, photography, and mixed media, I use light as a language to express compassion, hope, healing, beauty, and the human connection.
Through both art and writing, I invite others into a reflective space—to find beauty in struggle, strength in vulnerability, joy in rediscovery, and peace in embracing their whole self, who they are.
This is my story.
This is my voice.
This is my art.
And if something here touches your heart, may it remind you that healing, too, is a form of art.