I hope you fall in love with the hidden parts of yourself. The parts you deem unworthy of love. I hope you become less fearful of letting them rise to the surface. They have suffocated long enough beneath your mask.
Read MoreEarlier this month, I had the absolute pleasure (and I don’t type that word lightly) of meeting Zadie Smith at an event at Arizona State University. Zadie Smith, who is a novelist (best selling author), essayist, short story writer, and a professor at New York University is also a writer whose work I’ve never had the pleasure of reading (I’m ashamed to even admit that).
Read MoreIf anyone were to ask me about my childhood, I’d tell them that is was like no other, the best there ever was. Reminiscent of 80s and 90s childhood movies. The ones that made you feel good, when kids were just being kids, looking for adventure, running into a challenge here and there but always coming out victorious. The Goonies, The Sandlot, etc. What kid didn’t want that life? But it wasn’t always fun and adventure. Sometimes it resembled a scene from a different kind of movie…a horror movie.
Read MoreThrowback to Halloween when I recreated Ms. Angelou’s iconic photo. I had so much fun with this and to top it off, my 8 yr old was the photographer! Round of applause for my little man.
For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading. Library time was my favorite at school. Even when my teachers would have story time, I was eager to listen to them read whatever book they had chosen, especially my 5th grade teacher, Mrs. Martin. She stuttered but that didn’t stop her from being animated and bringing all the characters to life with her dramatic voice changes. To this day, I have yet to encounter a better storyteller. Well done, Mrs. Martin! (Wherever you are)
Read MoreTamarria Denga is a Christian, wife, mother, poet, and writer living in Arizona with her husband and three children. Having a passion for writing and poetry since she was a child, she is releasing her first novel.
Debut novel, Spirit Lake, now available.
WELCOME TO SPIRIT LAKE... A small town in northern Arizona where the people are as charming and beautiful as the town itself.
Meet Teylor and Jamie; Teylor and Jamie have been inseparable since eighth grade, when Jamie defended her from the school's bully. Now, seventeen years later, they still remain the best of friends; that is, until Jamie returns home from a two week stay in Paris bearing the news that he'd recently proposed to Carrie; his girlfriend of six months! In the wake of that revelation, Teylor's world is shattered, and what was supposed to be the most exciting time in Jamie's life thus far, has become a turbulent roller coaster for the two best friends. And to add to the chaos, Teylor has been hiding a secret of her own.
Will the two find their way out of this emotional maze before it ruins their friendship? Or, will their bond die once she reveals the hidden truth she's kept from him for seventeen years? Fall in love with Spirit Lake as the author takes you on a romantic adventure to a town filled with tests, trials, and most importantly, love...
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