My Steadfast Family, Thank you for supporting me as I launched my first book. Writing Steadfast took me back to some dark places that I don't ever want to see any human being live through. Writing the book helped me to heal and pour out on paper a lot of the trauma that I faced as a teenager going to prison. I survived that. I walked into prison at 17 with a 38-year mandatory sentence. After serving 25+ years, I came home determined to make a difference in the community and i