Ellen Miller is the author of The One Year Book of Inspiration for Girlfriends, Lord, Have Mercy—help and hope for moms on their last nerve and Spread Too Thin: Opting-out of frantic living; opting-in to lasting peace. She is a former officer for a Fortune 500 company and served, for twenty-five years, as the CEO of Insider Marketing, a technology marketing firm she founded in 1994. She and her husband make their home in Dallas, Texas, have two grown children and one grandchild. Ellen leads a full and joy-filled life in retirement enjoying travel, food, friends and numerous hobbies.