All about Erin

Hi everyone!

I'm Erin, aka The Fierce Beagle. I'm a professional writer and editor, but I started blogging almost a year ago after having our first baby, Ethan. I needed a creative and community outlet, since being a police wife really began to show its toughest challenges after having a kid.

I met my husband, Noah, in college in Nashville, Tennessee. He was a religion major. So when we moved back to his hometown, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, it came as quite a twist of fate when he decided to join the police department. Noah graduated at the top of his Academy class two years ago, and has been on the streets ever since. For the first year and a half he worked rotating shifts, but this past January our department went to permanent shifts. Noah was lucky enough to be assigned the day shift. And we've been lucky enough to have some good friends—another police officer and his wife, a SAHM to a beautiful boy just a month older than Ethan—provide childcare while Noah and I are both at work.

Living in Winston-Salem has been great—I was born and raised in Los Angeles, and have also lived in Chicago and Northern Ireland—but it didn't really start to feel like home until we became part of the police community.

I'm the "sergeant" of the bereavement committee for Behind the Blue Line, the WSPD spouses' non-profit support group, and I'm really excited about being part of Police Wives Unite!