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Harriet Showman

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Harriet Showman lives in South Carolina, U.S., a culture hurt deep by the wounds of slavery and racism. Showman began her quest to understand the legacy bequeathed to her by slave-owning ancestors through her undergraduate and graduate study of colonial South Carolina history. It was then that the endemic poverty of her home state captured her attention. With a strong core of allies, she helped to establish a statewide Guardian ad Litem program to provide legal support for abused children; a Cities in Schools organization to serve underprivileged students; and a vehicle for the accumulation of monies to be distributed in grants through the Children’s Trust Fund. As a development officer for the state’s flagship university, Showman attracted ...more

invisible-i-am receives 5 Star B.R.A.G. Medallion

invisible-i-am has been honored with a five star B.R.A.G. Medallion by indieBRAG, LLC, "a privately held organization comprising a large group of readers, both individuals and members of book clubs, located throughout the United States and in ten other countries around the globe. B.R.A.G. is an acronym for Book Readers Appreciation Group." The mission of indieBRAG, LLC is "to discover talented sel Read more of this blog post »
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Published on June 13, 2016 13:04
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“Whether you like it or not, I am.”
Harriet Showman

“We create our lives with words.”
Harriet Showman, invisible-i-am by Gregg Davis

“That nasty, blonde, skank Hayley looked pleased with herself. Draped all over my boyfriend in her oh-so-trite, size negative-two, designer clothes. Her attitude matched the price tags.”
Harriet Showman, invisible-i-am by Gregg Davis

“Life changes in the instant. The ordinary instant.”
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking

“I'm just an individual who doesn't feel that I need to have somebody qualify my work in any particular way. I'm working for me.”
David Bowie

“Survival isn't lying down and saying, oh, poor me. It's finding ways to live and keep your light shining in the midst of the darkest circumstances.”
Danai Gurira

“The principles of true art is not to portray, but to evoke.”
Jerzy Kosinski
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“Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.”
Cormac McCarthy, All the Pretty Horses

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