I am a writer and a thinker, or perhaps a thinker and a writer, because usually, that is the order of things—I think too much, and then I write. I live in northern Vermont in a place known as The Kingdom. Born and raised in southeastern Colorado, I moved here after marrying and have raised two children with my cheesemaker husband on our family farm. I have always loved writing but rarely found time to write. I have been a student, a criminal court advocate for victims of violence, a bookkeeper, and a cheesemaker. For the past eighteen years, I have been a mother and the wife of an entrepreneur, first and foremost, finding stolen moments here and there to flirt with the page. I have recently completed and published a memoir, a coming-of-age story experienced through the lens of my birth and childhood in a fundamentalist, highly restrictive religious group. I left when I was seventeen and subsequently contributed to the complete dismantling of the group. It is the only story I know of in which the kids who were born and raised in the cult were the instruments of its demise. I also write and publish opinion essays on my website and in the local paper.