Vanessa Jenkins resides in Woodbridge, Virginia, where she is the proud mother of four wonderful adult children and a doting grandmother to four beautiful granddaughters. In her spare time, she enjoys knitting, baking, diamond painting, and nurturing her growing collection of plant babies. She’s also “mom” to a tuxedo cat named Autumn and a playful Cavapoo puppy named Charlie. Like her beloved character Lynn, Vanessa is learning to bloom anyway—choosing faith, truth, and joy after finding herself divorced following thirty years of marriage. Her life, in spite of difficult circumstances, is a beautiful testimony of resilience, rediscovery, and the quiet power of starting again.