As a child, I’d always wanted to become an illustrator.  I taught myself to draw, and illustrated an entire story in fifth grade.  But someone was always telling me I would fail at art, and that art was just a waste of my time.  …. [Read More]

No one in my family had attended college, and I planned to be the first.  Even though I became a mother at 18, I enrolled at Rio Hondo and started toward my degree. Then I faced a new crisis….
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