As you can see in my sidebar to the right, I have a new section to my website! It’s called Shameless Shoutouts – the part of my website where I give a shameless shoutout to someone who has influenced me or encouraged me in some way. I think this should be pretty fun (though it may be some time between updates). I have lots of friends, and hundreds, if not thousands of people have influenced my life, so if you haven’t appeared on this segment of the site, it doesn’t make you less worthy…it probably just means I haven’t gotten to you just yet! In some way, I hope that this section will encourage you just by learning more about these people in my life, just as these people have encouraged my life.

So who is it this week? Read on for the whole story!