The Mona Diaries

Mona Lamar is an artist, a designer, an island adventuress.

She is a jewelry designer… a painter, whose passion lustful vulnerability, in the wake of a series of painful events, grows with so much fervor that she is pulled by the forces of nature to overcome her greatest fears in pursuit of self-actualization. She finds herself on a small island in the corner of the Caribbean, where she succumbs, once again, to her lustful vulnerability, and learns what it’s like to live and love in a place that wasn’t built for her.

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I'm not Special, and Neither are You

I know about it, because I’ve lived it. I know about it, because my friends have lived it. I know about it, because it happens to every woman who comes to the island and meets a local and falls for him and continues to come back and see him, thinking that she is special… that she is the only one.

The Sting of Rejection

I have been trying to make the journey a better one for you and me for 2 years or more now I wish you would give it a try…

That message came in at 10:24am. It was the third message I’d received from him since I woke up that morning. I’ll refer to him as Dreadlocks.

My Desire for Attention

I live on this island where... it's almost impossible to be a real woman the way our souls desire us to be, and find love and respect at the same time.

The Introduction

Five years ago, I stepped out of a single engine Cessna onto a tarmac in San Pedro, Belize. A warm breeze swept my hair across my face, and, as I brushed it out of the way, I breathed in the sea-borne air. As the scent of salt lingered, I knew I was home.

But what I didn’t know was how this new home would condition me to look at love and relationships from a perspective so twisted that I literally have to remind myself ‘you can’t make this stuff up.’