My hometown school district, Terrell County School System featured me and fellow alumni as local authors while highlighting the importance of reading and acknowledging local authors during Reading Across America 2026.
This Author's Chair spotlight is an honor and full circle moment as my love and appreciation for reading and literacy began with Saturday visits to the Historic Carnegie Library🏛, spelling bees🐝 (Lillie Cooper Primary, Carver Elementary, and Terrell Middle School), and many journal entries, essays, thesis statements, writing/editing projects✍🏾, monthly blogs/newsletters later (Terrell High🌊, Darton/Albany State🐏, graduate school x2📝, Just Write! Support Group, etc 👩🏾💻.) Thank you to my no nonsense parents😅 (heavy emphasis on reading; always gifted us books/journals), my no nonsense older sister😅 (who allowed me to hijack her books sometimes which led to my increased vocabulary & reading level) and to my no nonsense educators 😅 during my time within the Terrell County School System (1990-2003) who never slacked on their duties of ensuring we the students of Terrell County, GA were equipped the 'Write' way and 'READy' for any challenge (reading out loud, silent reading, Book It! Pizza Hut program, Reading Rainbow, and other PBS programs.) This is the fruit of your labors. You are honored and appreciated. Thank you all for being a part of my story. God bless! 💚💛💫🔰
📷🚸Me in Kindergarten (the late, great Linda Lane Owens class) with classmates Chris and Daniel reading newspapers and creating in the Writing center 😀😍
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Lequvia Ousley
