I am an Author who is sharing her love of storytelling through the written word.
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B.R. Herron
B.R. Herron has always been an avid reader, and can remember getting her library card at nine years old. Books, allowed her to escape from the small farming community in Arkansas where she grew up in the 1960s. Whether strolling down the streets of London with Sherlock Holmes in the 1800s or going down the Mississippi River with Mark Twain, her goal, with her writings, is to be able to provide the same kind of escape for the readers.
B.R. is a retired educator from Memphis City Schools in Memphis, Tennessee and the Department of Defense Schools in Frankfurt, Germany. She is a proud HBCU graduate from the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. B.R. has always considered herself to be the family griot. And for over six decades, Ms. Herron has intrigued her children, grandchildren and siblings with family history and storytelling.
Most mornings B.R. can be found walking in the highlands of Boquete, Panama where she makes her home. And can be seen enjoying a great cup of Panamanian coffee with the local writers’ group. Or at her favorite bar, enjoying a Margarita and dancing the night away.
A Level Playing Field is her debut novel and is part of a trilogy entitled The Beale Group it will soon be available at www.Amazon.com and www.brherron.com
I started writing at around ten years old. My first two works were a modern retelling of the Classic Cinderella story I had written for fun and a biography on my maternal grandmother’s life, Joan Ables, for a fourth-grade writing project. My mother still has the only manuscript of my version of the Cinderella story in a file containing many papers and documents from my childhood and education. I sent my Grandma Joan a copy of the biography I had written about her as a Mother’s Day gift
As a child, I loved watching classic Disney and Barbie films. (back then, they had more meaningful and heartfelt messages about inner beauty, following your dreams and heart, holding on to hope, helping others, the meaning of family, true love, friendship, making a difference, and being yourself). I would also play out my favorite stories and create my own with my Barbie dolls, which allowed me to create my own world, which I could escape to after I had endured my peers’ daily torture of me in grade school. I also grew up reading books on fantasy, fiction, mythology, magic, mystery books, historical fiction, history, biographies, folklore, fairytales, and classical literature. Books were also an escape for me, along with movies and computer games, since my peers often bullied me in school until I graduated from high school because of my Asperger’s Syndrome and Dyspraxia. tellus, luctus nec ullamcorper mattis, pulvinar dapibus leo.
I just wanted to be the person I am and be myself. My father has been a bit more understanding, but he was still protective of me since I am his only biological child, and every good father is protective of his daughter and cares about her. I believe that my mother’s overprotective nature was mainly because of my brother Evan’s traumatic brain injury that was caused when he fell off the roof of the church we attended when we were still living in Andalusia. Although at the time, Evan was fifteen years old, and I was only four years old, it affected his relationship with our mother and my relationship with him. It’s why I gave Rosella and her older half-brothers a close relationship despite their large age gap.
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“A Level Playing Field”
Tears of sadness gathered in Mike’s eyes, as he stood on the hotel balcony, looking at the snow-capped Swiss Alps. His mind had wandered back to when he had lost his everything. Yet, today was supposed to be his proudest and happiest moment.
He brushed away the tears and went back inside the suite. Lying on the bed was a copy of Time Magazine. On the cover was a picture of him and his business partners. Today, the Beale Group will be given this year’s World Bank Development Award for Economics.
Mike picked up his tuxedo jacket. It had been designed by one of the many entrepreneurs sponsored by the group. He needed to go collect his associates and head to the ceremony.
They were as thrilled as he was supposed to be. After all, the Beale Group had leveled the playing field for people of color in Memphis. Their group had also done the same for other urban cities across the Southwestern United States.
They also invested in and transformed several poor West African countries. They’d helped turn these countries’ economies into leading powers on the international stage. Despite the countless obstacles the group had endured, the investment group had done it! They had achieved their goals.
But Mike sat down on the bed, his heart still heavy. He looked at the magazine cover again and his mind was transported back in time. Back to the day, the police killed his boy… and to the beginning of the Beale Group.