I come from a biracial background.  My father was a world renoun jazz arranger and composer who was the music director for Dizzy Gillespie.  My life is jazz.  My mother was an educator specializing in Speech and Drama.  I started out pursuing a career in medicine, but, that was not my calling.  I have worked the majority of my life as a paralegal in the entertainment and social justice areas.  My father didn't want me to pursue a career in art or writing because he felt it was a very hard life.  Unfortunately for him, Art and writing is my calling.  That came to light after letting the social proscriptions and societal pressures loose their hold; futher. after a near death experience with cancer.  When my mother died, that was the turning point.   Writing is my only reason for living.  Every day I live to create through my writing and my art -- it is the breath of my soul and existence on this planet.