Nicole Jacquelyn is the mom of two little girls and a full-time college student. She hasn’t watched television in well over a year, she still does things that drive her mother crazy, and she loves to read.

At eight years old, when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she told people she wanted to be a mom. When she was twelve, her answer changed to author. By the time she was eighteen, when people asked her what she wanted to do with her life, she told them she really wanted to be a writer- but the odds of that happening were so slim that she’d get her business degree “just to be safe.”

Her dreams stayed constant. First, she became a mom, then she went to college, and during her senior year- with one daughter in first grade and the other...