Writing has always been a large part of my life.
As a child, I would write songs that would only be sung for myself as I pushed myself higher and higher on the swing set in our backyard or when I knew I was alone on the playground afterschool.
In elementary, three friends and I collaborated to make our own stories for the Four Best Friends Forever. The spiral notebook would be passed around the group as each of us took a turn to write a fanciful story that included each of us.
Throughout middle and high school, I was an avid journaler. I have always found writing true events, prayers, to-do lists and the highly academic papers everyone else dreaded to be easier than writing fiction. To this day, the request on the top of my Christmas list is a dotted bullet journal.
While in upper elementary and middle school, another school staff kid, Tricia White, was enlisted to babysit my siblings and I infrequently. Tricia's mom was a well-loved English teacher at our Christian school, so it's not terribly surprising that Tricia became a talented wordsmith. One of my core memories from middle school was attending an event where Tricia presented an original oratory about her birth and adoption story. It's best told by Tricia herself and you can find out more on her blog, Right Where You Belong.
Eventually, Tricia went to college and even had the opportunity to work with one of the well-known Christian authors behind the Left Behind series. In the past decade, she has published fiction and devotional books of her own.
Why this short biography? Well, aside from the fact that Tricia has always inspired me in her writing and her faith, she has created writing prompts for the month of April and that has inspired me to pick up my pen--or rather pull up my keyboard and relish the mechanical click-clack--and fall back in love with a hobby that has always helped me debrief, evaluate, and celebrate the wonderful and everyday moments in my life.
