Born and raised in Metropolitan Washington D.C., Tricia V. has lived in California, Texas, Greece, Turkey, and Utah, where she graduated from the University of Utah in Linguistics.

A lifelong member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (aka Mormons) she is also a recovering overeater and codependent. She believes writing is a form of meditation wherein she can perceive the scripts and judgments of the ego and escape them to restore communion with the love of God.

Tricia has enjoyed a diverse professional career. As a "Kelly Girl", she worked at Mobil Corporation, CSC, Sopha MRI, and GTE during summers in college. She has also temped at McGraw-Hill's California Testing Bureau, Health Benefits America, Gateway (industrial painting) and the Maryland Food Bank. Her permanent jobs have included harvesting slot machines as an NCO club cashier, reader/scribe for the blind, marketing secretary at Bard Access Systems, massage therapist office manager and synagogue bookkeeper. Tricia is currently a legal secretary.

A self confessed "Jack of all trades, master of none" Tricia has studied Latin, German, Russian, Chinese (she is half Chinese/White) Arabic, Hebrew and Greek. In addition to writing, Tricia sings, cooks, draws and is learning to play the piano. She has been married for 16 years and has 3 living children.

My passion is ...

the words of eternal life

I know too much about ...

linguistics

My parents always told me ...

put on another blanket

My childhood ambition ...

chef

My favorite memory ...

letting the Lord into the stable of my heart where beasts feed

Why I write ...

enlightenment

What I am reading/watching/listening to ...

three is a magic number

My first job ...

drug store cashier

My best moment ...

waking up most mornings

My inspiration ...

to know as I also am known

Health & Fitness > Nutrition & Health Issues Should there be a special tax on junk foods?

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The problem I see with putting a special tax on "junk food" is defining what is "junk". Is anything that the government does not tax, be default, considered healthy?

With each generation we target a different nutritional bugbear. We've gone through fads of low sodium ice cream, fat free candy, low carb bacon and now there is trans-fat free pork rinds. The problem with each of these products is that they never contained the offending substance in the first place, but are high in some other damaging substance. I don't even think my ex-brother-in-law would try to argue that a feast m...

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