A girl from a small town in Georgia, face challenges when odds at times were against her. She was from a large, poor family. But with determination, she rose above all adversities. Nothing was goin...view moreA girl from a small town in Georgia, face challenges when odds at times were against her. She was from a large, poor family. But with determination, she rose above all adversities. Nothing was going to take her away from her dreams of becoming a teacher. With the encouragement of her father and example of her mother, she accepted who she was and remained mindful of always being herself. Infused with the expression used by her father, “EVERYTHING’S GONNA BE ALRIGHT,” she kept her life positive with a resolution to become SOMEBODY and not just ANYBODY. Regardless of how things turned out in her life, she knew that life did not stand still, it progressed.
She moved from adolescence into young adulthood with a drive that could not be easily shaken. Whether making decisions or anything else, she was not easily persuaded beyond her own intuition. Viewing the world within her space, she walked the chalk-line with ethics that would lead her to a life of success. The choice of becoming a teacher was not welcomed by money hungry predecessors that surrounded her. She knew that her destiny in life was set regardless of how much money she would make.
A veteran teacher of thirty-two years, she has always had the desire to become a writer. Although she spent many years in the classroom, her inner passion was writing. To authorship her first book has been her life’s goal. It is her hopes of becoming a well-known writer in the future. She expects to see her books on the shelves of every bookstore across the country. This is just the first of many.view less