Roy robbed banks… a lot of them.  He ran away from home at 13, ending up in a Chicago apartment building known to house prostitutes.  Roy said they “raised him” and thus his life of crime began.  

When we met I was a young, naive, blonde haired, blue eyed co-ed trying hard to work my way through graduate school.  Roy, on the other hand, had just finished serving a 20-year prison term and was trying hard to navigate life on the “outside”. 

Sometimes we learn the most powerful lessons from the smallest among us. Minnie Moorehouse was an amazing little girl with wisdom well beyond her years…

Six thousand pairs of eyes stared at me as I ran to the front of the stage in a panic. If I had been speaking or singing I would’ve been fine, but to my horror it was my parenting skills that were being displayed for all to see.