Dear wanderers, pull up a seat around the fire.

Stay awhile or come and go as you like. This space is where we put words around the paths we’re walking knowing that telling ourselves the truth about our own lives is where we begin. Again and again.

To Tell You the Truth is a little more than social media, a little less than an essay in a book. Writing from the depths of our watery souls, but also from the make-up section in Target because we contain multitudes. Mostly, a place to pause, to breathe, to hold more questions than answers, and to feel a little less alone along the way.

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ABOUT SARAH & CORINNE

Sarah Carter is a writer, poet, artist, and mother.

Her writing explores the evocative dynamic between poetry and life, braiding story, memoir, and myth into a language of faith, embodiment, and feminine empowerment. She grew up on an Arizona horse ranch and spent most days stowed away under giant Mesquite trees, imagining adventures and losing track of time. Now, she resides near a wildlife preserve outside Chicago, writing stories, hiking with her dogs, creating abstract paintings in her studio, and hanging with her husband and kids. She still loves the desert and always stands barefoot under a full moon, and nothing makes her happier than witnessing women reclaim their worth and return to themselves. 

She co-authors Slow Burn: Reclaiming Yourself After Everything Burns to the Ground. Her poetry and essays also appear in SubStack: To Tell You the Truth and Instagram: @heysarahcarter.

Corinne Shark is a match-striking storyteller who has been weaving words since she was a little girl. With her head in the clouds and her toes forever reaching for the sea, she spent most of her life trying to leave the desert in her rearview mirror and is more shocked than anyone at her later-in-life love affair with the Arizona she once again calls home. Corinne is a writer, advocate, and spiritual pyro obsessed with lighting soul fires among women and kicking up a little dirt along the way.

She co-authors Slow Burn: Reclaiming Yourself After Everything Burns to the Ground and the SubStack: To Tell You the Truth. You can find her having a good time over on Instagram: @thesaltyshark and on TikTok: @corinneshark.

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Sarah Carter is a writer, poet, artist, and mother. Her writing explores the evocative dynamic between poetry and life, braiding story, memoir, and myth into a language of faith, embodiment, and feminine empowerment.
Corinne is a recovering rule-follower who exchanged her death grip on certainty for wide-open wandering. She has deep convictions about what constitutes a good taco, stopping for sunsets, and well-written TV. And yes, she always needs more ice.