Growing up in Chicago, Illinois, I always wanted to write, and loved to read. During my childhood years, I won numerous awards and competed against other students from across the city. As a teenager, I abandoned my dream of writing for a job in retail. College was a must. Majoring in Human Resource Management, I enjoyed a career in various capacities of retail business management. However, as all writers know, there's always a story somewhere. Those stories were all around me, begging to be told. After a number of years, I decided to dust off my literary skills, mix in some life experience, an...