"To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men; that is genius...trust thyself, insist on thyself; never imitate."        These words changed my world 20 years ago! In fact in the years that followed I consumed everything I could by Ralph Waldo Emerson because of my encounter with "Self-Reliance." Since then I have strove to live and write as authentically as possible. I do so to encourage (and accompany) others in their attempts to express their "latent genius." We all have it; even those of us who say we don't. My books embodies and encourage this belief.

Winner of inaugural Dorothy Campbell Grant for English Majors (2003). Best of the Best Leadership Award with Dun & Bradstreet (1999). Certification in Professional and Applied Ethics --UNC-Charlotte (2004)