I’m a storyteller.

Besides loving on my children and cuddling up to a good movie with my husband, there is nothing else in this world that I love more than writing. Part of story telling is listening. Writers are known for having strong opinions, being able to add words where necessary and summarizing something with ease.

I have always loved both fiction and nonfiction in equal amounts. Both writing and reading provide people the chance to both learn from another human’s experience, to create a world others can escape to or to offer insight into a topic you want to…

Like most people, when a long-eared, sweet-faced dog comes running up to me, I make noise like I’m talking to an infant and immediately bend down to offer him a few pets behind the ears.

People love dogs. It’s a fact. It’s proven with studies and backed up by movies, songs and in almost every great American novel. And really…what’s not to love?

Yet, beneath America’s unwavering love of our canine companions, is another group — a cluster of skeptics, admirers of independence and beautiful things.

Translation: Cat lovers.

If you think you might be like me, a card carrying…

“It’s a boy!” the technician said as she dragged the ultrasound wand over my 20-week belly. I immediately looked to my husband, who was sitting in the chair next to me, holding my hand. The look in his eyes was utter joy. He was going to have the son he had always wanted. I had a feeling it was going to be a boy — call it mother’s intuition or the feeling that my firstborn child would always be a boy, I just knew. It was a boy, and we were so darn excited!

Flash forward four years later, pregnancy…