This is the hard part. I sit in an interview and they are like tell me about yourself. I just freeze, like what am I supposed to say? My name is Hollie and what do you want to hear? I once had a professional reporter ask me about myself in the the most interesting way. She said “Tell me your story” and suddenly the question wasn’t so hard.

I am Hollie I am a mother of two boys who live with Autism. I worked for the Rangers in college and I was given the nickname Miss Baseball and that’s how the page got its name. I went to college and got a business degree. I had dreams of being a CEO but life got in the way and my dreams at first died but then they were reborn. I thought a lot about what I would do with me life. When you are depressed you think that there is nothing out there. Then the fun part of coming out of the depression is that the whole world opens up. Would I go to law school, nursing school, medical school? I have toyed with the idea of being a writer, I thought at first I would be a sports writer and talk about baseball.

My oldest got sick and I put aside writing sports professionally. My oldest got sicker and sicker and more doctors were involved at one point I think we may have had 6 different doctors on my son’s case. I went to the gaming world on a lark and met some baseball players and they gave me so much motivation. I heard the best advise, “I come into the clubhouse insanely early and let the chaos come to me.” I watched a pitcher get shelled and he played that night after the game and he was asked aren’t you upset. He said something to the effect “No, I was tipping my pitchers but then I recovered and the most important thing is to not let it get to you. One day does not define you. ” Being around professional athletes gave me some wonderful motivation and understanding and I used that in my own life.

I became a gamer, COD is where I started but most nights I am on Fortnite and I found new community and new outlet for stress. I went to therapy and found myself. I started to explore my world and what did I want it to look like. I started to read and the more I read the more I wanted to write and the more books I acquired,, the more I wanted to create books. Now its not that my life is easier, my son is very sick and even while this storm goes on I am finding a little place here at my desk at my computer to create my story both figuratively and reality. I am a warrior, caregiver, creator, author, artist, a musician. As this journey goes on you will hear more of the story.