"Sharon Elaine," my mother said. "Nothing is going to happen, unless you make it happen."  I guess the desire to succeed is what kept me going.  I was the first female from both sides of my family to graduate from college.

I can still remember the first time I took a book home to read from school. I sat in the hallway, with my back against the wall, near the kitchen.  Mother was always at the stove and she never had time to listen to me read.  Whenever, I came across I word I could not figure out, I walked up to her and asked what the word was.  It would have been ideal to know how to read, before entering elementary school.  I would have been ahead, instead of having to work hard to get to the top.

Mother's Book of Wisdom

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A book of humorous poems written by my mother.