I've always been a writer. For as long as I can remember (with the exception of that brief stint where I thought being a chiropractor would be cool), I wanted to be a sports reporter for Sports Illustrated or work in television on a major network like Erin Andrews. In elementary school, I'd write these little plays that my friends and I would perform for the class. In middle and high school, I took poetry and creative writing courses, and entered writing competitions. 

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​I transferred universities TWICE, majoring first in communications, then English, and finally journalism when I arrived at Michigan State, where I would ultimately receive my BA in Journalism with a concentration in sports reporting. Fresh out of college, I got a job with a local paper covering high school sports. It was both rewarding and emotionally exhausting. At 24, I was doing exactly what I wanted to with my life as far as my career went, but I had absolutely no social life to speak of. Within a year, I left that job and worked at a gas station for another year while I figured out my next move in what I consider to be my "quarter life crisis". God, if 24 year old me only knew what 34 had in store for us lol.