My Story 

As a young teenager, I was blessed to experience productions like The Wiz and Your Arms Too Short to Box with God with my church youth group. At the time, I had no idea those performances would quietly plant the seeds for what would later become my passion for storytelling.

When I was sixteen, I experienced my first heartbreak. I couldn't find the words to express how I felt, so I wrote my feelings down. Before I knew it, those emotions had become my very first poem.

My mother became one of my greatest encouragers. She believed in my writing long before I believed in myself and continually encouraged me to keep putting pen to paper.

I was too young to understand what it meant that God is speaking to you, but He did. Out of nowhere, I had a burning desire to write a skit for my church's youth department. It was the 1980s, and I sat down at the baby blue typewriter I had received for Christmas the year before. It took countless hours, but I eventually wrote, produced, and directed my very first skit.

Looking back, I can see that moment differently. What I thought was simply an idea became the beginning of a calling that has stayed with me throughout my life.

I never stopped writing. Whether it's a novel, a poem, a screenplay, or a story waiting patiently in my imagination, there has always been another story inside me, waiting for the right moment to come alive.