Tyra Manning
Autor de Where the Water Meets the Sand
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Dr. Tyra Manning earned her doctoral degree in education from the University of Kansas and went on to become one of the nation's top school superintendents. Since her retirement her mission has been to share her compelling life's story of hope and redemption by encouraging readers to tell their own mostrar más life stories through writing. Her first book, Where the Water Meets the Sand, is an IBPA Benjamin Franklin Awards Gold winner in the Autobiography Memoir category. mostrar menos
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The authors biggest paralyzing fear was losing her young husband while he served in Vietnam. They had a promise, a plan, to meed in Hawaii where the water meets the sand once he had leave. It was while her daughter was with relatives and she was in a clinic for depression that she learned her fear had come true. Larry had been shot down over Laos.
Most of us would curl up into a ball and crumble ..... not her. She struggled her way thru the twisty roads of sobriety and sanity to earn her doctorate! She did her husband proud as 'they' say....and in 2006 she kept her promise about being with him..... where the water meets the sand.… (más)