I've been writing since I was little. I remember enjoying storytelling way back then. The cover of a book called Nobody Wants Barkley, by Marilyn Anderson, is still taking up space in my childhood memories. My tiny hands picking it up off the shelf, which I grabbed solely due to the art on the cover. I remember my thumbs brushing over the image on the front. My little empathetic heart was drawn to the fuzzy little terrier drawing. The sad expression as he lay in a cardboard b