About

Hello!  I’m Erin and this is my blog, Clothed in Sunlight. I am a 27-year-old wife and mom with a passion for well-told stories, as well as a blogger, freelance journalist, business owner and entrepreneur, and the author of a young adult fantasy series called the Queenmaker Saga.

I’m also Catholic. My Catholic faith is integral to who I am, and a big part of the lens through which I view the world. If you aren’t Catholic yourself, please don’t let that scare you away from this blog! The content here won’t be all Catholic, and you are welcome — encouraged! — to share your opinion, even if it is different from my own.

Beyond the basics, I am a conglomeration of random facts, talents, events, and experiences. For example, I’ve been married for over three years now. It was a magical event with teacups, flowers, lots of moss, and a little bit of ivy. Two years ago, my husband Brian and I were blessed with our first son — a darling little boy we named Clark. I enjoy riding horses, and grew up on a ranch in a small town. I’ve lived in California for eleven years, Montana for ten, and Washington for six. I like whimsy, fantasy novels, romance, flowers, and the color black. I’ve owned more dogs than I can count on my fingers and toes. I enjoy singing and art, but I love math and science as well, especially Calculus, Physics and Biology. I love adventure — probably a sign of reading too many books — and being a new mom has reminded me to search for it in the little moments of each day.

I have always been a dreamer, a reader of books and a writer of stories.  Throughout my entire life, I have longed for an adventure like the heroes and heroines of books.  I have wept at the fact that this world no longer offers such a thing.    Sure, I could travel Europe.  I could go college, participate in extreme sports, attend a Renaissance Fair, or go camping.  All these are but imitations.  I want real adventure, true adventure.  The type that appears on Bilbo Baggins’s doorstep in the form of Gandalf and a cluster of dwarves.  The type where you don’t really know whats going on, where you’re going, or how you will get there.  The type with bad guys and good guys, magic, mystery, and long journeys.  The type that means something.  I don’t want to travel across Europe simply because it would be fun.  I want it to be pivotal.  Adventure isn’t adventure unless you are saving someone–or saving the world.  It isn’t adventure unless it is life or death.  Real adventure isn’t about slaying dragons, or traveling long distances.  It is about starting a journey worthy of your life.  Real adventure is something you could write a book about.  In the end, I think that’s what I’ve always wanted.  I’ve wanted my life to be like one of my books.  It’s like Belle sings in Beauty and the Beast, “I want adventure in the great wide somewhere, I want it more then I can bear.”  She really hits the nail on the head.  I do want it more than I can bear.  Perhaps that is why I love the movie so much, because Belle reminds me quite a bit of me.  Or perhaps it is because, in the end, she gets her adventure.

For me, that adventure is my Catholic faith. The journey to sainthood is the closest we can ever get to get to a real, fate-of-the-world, life-or-death kind of adventure.

The truth is, a human person is so much more than an about page. I could explain my life for hours, but the words on this page would never truly define me. Hopefully, over the course of this blog you will get to know me better and I, in turn, will get to know you. I look forward to that.