About the Author

Preschool Festival-1995?- Guadalajara

Born in Guadalajara (Mexico) I spent the first 8 years of my life here. I am, as locals here would say, a true tapatia however, for most of my formative years I lived in the beautiful city of St. Louis; a midwestern city in the U.S. and returned to my birth city after nearly 10 years!

During my time in St. Louis I met the most extraordinary people, people that inevitably touched the soul and heart of this young woman. For the many experiences, people, and places in St. Louis I am really much in debt to God. I pray, if it be God's will, to call this place once again home while at the same time I continue to dive deeper in this city that has opened its arms for me

Having these two radically different places as homes has really shaped how I approach the world around me and the recent move "home" has stretched me in ways that have surprised me!

I now stand before a vast and unknown future, far away from my parents and in a city that is slowly being unwrapped from distant childhood memories. Now, more than ever, I have come to more deeply understand the pilgrimage that each us travels every day. A pilgrim in both the faith and through being physical sojourners. I can only pray that through His Mercy, God will allow this journey to be full of sorrows, joys and surprises and at the end of every day, at the end of my own reality here on Earth, be able to claim, "Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage" (Psalm 119:54)

With a few dear friends- St. Louis 2011