Author Patricia Yarbrough's Blog – January 2009 Archive (2)

Being a strong mother of five beautiful children, my life was cut down on December 29th 1989 to barely living.



I watched as my nineteen year old son lie in a coma for week, and so did I. He was hooked up to a respirator barely breathing so was I?



I tried everything I could to be strong for my family.



The evening of January 5th 1990 my son died and so did a part of me.



It was the worst pain I ever felt in my life. It felt as though someone ripped my… Continue

I went from having everything to having nothing, believing one day my dream would come true.

I wanted more than anything in the world to have my book published, I felt I had something to share with the world.



I had survived after the murder of my son.



I received a contract in May 2007, by July 2007, I was homeless.



I cried I couldn't understand, I had just received a contract and now I am homeless.



I refused to give up on my dream. My family told… Continue