When I sat down to journal during one of the most traumatic moments of my life, I didn’t know I would end up publishing a book. I am thrilled that Memoirs of a Counselor: My Life in South Africa has captured the minds and hearts of readers and writers alike.  In December 2021, to my complete surprise, I received a notification from Writer’s Digest stating that my memoir had won First Place in Narrative Nonfiction category for Self-Published E-book Awards. #WDWINNER 

EXCERPT

“After a while, the pain from the piercing of a thorn transformed into numbness. The more the thorns, the more desensitized I became to the thorns. Counselor had shown me how to breathe in the absence of oxygen. I learned that things in life were counterintuitive. As humans, we want to make sense of life, but more often than not, life doesn’t make sense. Life happens to us regardless if we want it to or not. Life comes knocking at our door and frequently enters without our permission. The strong at heart learn how to climb mountains and cross great divides in the marathon of life.”