Biography & Memoirs

My life didn't start out the greatest in the beginning but with the will to want more and most importantly God, things really can change. No one saw me becoming the man that I've become to be but yet here I am. This is not to glorify street life or anything negative, I'm simply telling my life as it happened and as I recall it. From a guy who was told I was unapproachable to a guy people love to be around today. I'm just happy the past is the past and AT LAST I ARRIVED.

“Not only had he walked away and been absent all these years already, but the one time I reached out to him, begging to be loved, begging to be wanted, begging to feel worthy, he said no. This wasn’t an "I’m-busy-this-weekend" no, this was a "you-are-not-worthy-of-my-time" no. …… He never contacted me after that. He never attempted to make it right. If I misunderstood, he never attempted to help me to understand. He was the adult. He made that choice. He had control. I was just his little broken girl, who would go through the next twenty years trying to figure out why he didn’t love me.”

In Theresa Miller's remarkable memoir of how to survive in the foster care system - and in the process become whole - when the ground keeps shifting, is a story not only of redemption but of resiliency and clear insight. Miller offers the evidence of a way through foster care - by reading books and telling stories about the events of one's life as they occur, by reframing one's stories and putting them in the context of the great children's stories, the Grimm Brothers Tales. Despite pain and anguish of parental neglect and mental illness, despite the unending number of homes and families Miller was asked to "fit" into, Miller chronicles what saved her, what brought her - not quite uns ...