M.E. LAINE

Hi! I’m a Texas-born, New York City-working, Greenwich, Connecticut-living responsible investing financier with an unconventional personal passion for engaging the right side of my brain. I’m also a daughter of God, sister, aunt, Miniature Australian Shepherd mom, friend, philanthropist, avid-athlete, and lover of Tex-Mex and college football.

Similar to the majority of the global population, life as I knew it was rocked to the core beginning in 2020.  I will spare readers from the gruesome intricacies. However, in short, just when I thought I was sailing off into the baby factory sunset with “Mr. Right” in February 2020, God had other plans. My past three years have included abuse; miscarriages; multiple cross-country moves; a global pandemic; economic crisis; job layoff; divorce; injuries; and most recently diagnoses with PTSD, depression and alcoholism.  

My purpose in creating this site is not to harp on the aforementioned misfortunes nor to depict how amazing the other side is – I believe I’m not there yet and my best days are yet to come. It is about the beauty and lessons in the ups and downs of the journey. I’m still in early recovery from alcoholism, and I’m working through the aftermath of the miscarriages, abusive marriage, and divorce. Through all these experiences I’m forever grateful for my faith. It has been challenged yet grown stronger in ways I never in a million years would have imagined.

That being said, I refuse to believe that I’m a victim of my circumstances and that “life happened to me” (I did fall into that trap for some time). Rather I’m a survivor, and “life happens for me.”

My dad always told me when I was growing up that “10% of life is what happens to you, and the other 90% is how you respond.” Well, if the above-mentioned tragedies are “the 10% that happened (not to me but for me)” does that not mean there can be a brilliant 90% on the other side? I like to think so. After all, as my pastor in Dallas said, “the life you hoped for is not the only life with hope.”

This is the beginning of my fabulous 90%. I like to remember the poignant question Mary Oliver poses to her readers in The Summer Day, “Tell me, what is it you plan to do with this one wild and precious life?”

I have always had a passion for art, literature, and writing. Thus, this represents my commitment to pursue interests that bring me joy and that add meaning to my life. I also pray that God may work through me to touch others and that my journey may restore hope and provide comfort to all I encounter as I relearn how to truly live.

In love and light,

M.E.