Guest Writer Series: The House That Lived (But Barely)

Today, I’m sharing the story of one of my friends and fellow Palisades Mom—someone who is walking through the very specific, deeply misunderstood hell of surviving the fire… and still losing her home. For insurance reasons, she has to publish this under a pen name. So for now, we’ll call her Ashlee Ember (because if we can’t laugh at the darkness, we’ll drown in it).

Her story is honest, funny, enraging, and important. And it’s exactly why I created The Palisades Mom in the first place.