On the Blog

I had always thought I was ready. I didn’t know when I was beckoning God to open a door for me to publish a book, that it was my waiting season. Since age seven, I knew I wanted to be a writer. When a relative told me, “Fix your mind on doing something else,” because she thought writing was out of reach for a Black girl growing up in a housing project, I didn’t let her words deter me. I could not deny the calling to be a writer in my life. With a sense of pride (especially ar