I grew up in India, climbing mango trees, and devouring books and mangoes. With a post-graduate degree in journalism and mass communications in hand, I moved to Canada to major in communications and culture at the University of Windsor. A brief stint in advertising and P.R. followed when I returned to India. I soon moved on to teaching journalism at my alma mater–a time I still treasure. I worked for 13 years as a writer/editor with Habitat for Humanity International.  

A few years ago, while riding the emotional roller coaster of a high-risk pregnancy after almost 10 years of infertility, a whisper sounded in my heart: “Write to encourage others.” That whisper soon grew to a crescendo. Now most days find me doing a balancing act between homeschooling and writing.

Life’s ups and downs have included job loss, the death of loved ones an ocean away, chronic illness, and infertility. Despite a recent diagnosis of ankylosing spondylitis, a degenerative auto-immune disorder, I believe and have experienced that “though weeping may last for the night, joy comes in the morning.” So I continue to write and speak of hope in spite of life’s challenges.