Elaine Luddy Klonicki is a freelance writer and editor who lives in Raleigh, North Carolina. She has a B.A. in psychology from North Carolina State University. She is a former columnist for The News & Observer, has self-published several nonfiction books, and has been published in Writer's Digest, Boys' Life, Midtown, Wake Living, and Military Officer magazines. Elaine is passionate about personal growth and inspiring people to be their best selves. She blogs about positive psychology at www.TheAuthenticLane.com. Elaine is fascinated with the WWII era and, along with her mom, wrote the story of her parents' courtship in NYC during the 1940s which includes over 50 of her dad's original love letters. Her mom passed away at age 98.