Victoria Gomez is a Filipina-American, military brat, born in Fayetteville, North Carolina. She’s the proud wife of a soldier and mother of three, bright and amazing, young men. Victoria has a multi-faceted resume: U.S. Army veteran, Pentagon policy writer, fitness instructor, substitute teacher, mental health therapist, Department of the Army equipment distribution analyst, NCAA recruiting compliance specialist, unit volunteer, team mom, coach, and university enrollment counselor. She’s an avid journal keeper, lover of languages and cultures, car karaoke singer, selfie-taker, work-outaholic, and traveler. She enjoys writing whenever she can, mostly in the early hours when the world is asleep or in the carpool line, since time is typically constrained by work-life-balance. She’s often seen watching and listening, writing in her journal, taking notes in her car, at a football game, or in a restaurant. She loves deeper and laughs louder than most, and seeks every opportunity to make the ordinary extraordinary. She loves the beach, good food, football, and her family. She calls the world home, but now parks her gypsy van in Leawood.