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About the Author

Naomi Johnson was born in Newark and raised in East Orange, New Jersey. She is the youngest daughter of Mamie Timmons and the late Fred Johnson. Naomi has two sisters living and one brother who passed away. She attended the Newark and East Orange school district. After graduated from high school, Naomi went on to college; to receive her A.S. degree in Early Childhood and B.A., majoring in Elementary Education. As she was pursing her degrees Naomi worked as a Teacher’s Aid and as a Substitute Teacher/Provisional Teacher in the Newark school system. Thereafter, she landed a teaching job at Chad private school as a kindergarten teacher. Few years later, Naomi returned to college to purse a certification in Teaching with The Handicapped and a M.A degree in Teaching with Technology. While pursing her Master she was faced with a horrific car accident that abruptly ended her career. Through her pain and recovery she found strength within from her spiritual faith to pursue a career in writing. This prolific writer and illustrator set her mind to venture her talent elsewhere. She does most of her illustrations and with some help from her son Deshon. A few of Deshon’s artwork and photographs are exhibited in the book. Later on in life, she started to write poetry after the tragic death of he brother Eugene Richard Bufford Jr. from gun violent. Due to the death of her brother and her car accident Naomi fused her two talents together to write this book of uplifting poems and illustrations.