The Leorah Collection
House of Leorah is a home for everyone's stories. This collection is the one wing that belongs to her — the family stories, legacy pieces, and memory-driven writing that started the whole house.
This is my grandmother. Everything here belongs to her — the stories she told me at the kitchen table, the ones she only told once, the ones I had to ask twice for. House of Leorah began because of her, and this collection is where her life lives on the page.
We are all made of stories. These are the ones I was made of.
the early years
Before
Where she came from. The people whose names she carried.
becoming herself
Young
First jobs. First loves. The summer everything shifted.
the long middle
Mother
Raising a family. The kitchen years. What she gave away and what she kept.
still telling them
Now
The stories she repeats. The ones she only tells once.
Stories from her life
The first entries are still being written.
Her life is being gathered slowly — at kitchen tables, on long phone calls, from the margins of old notebooks. Come back. It will grow.
Tell me when there's a new one"If you knew her, you have a story too.
Please — send it."
— keeper of the collection