Adams, Adrea: - The author was born to a legally blind and partially deaf father and a totally blind mother. It is suspected that her parents' disabilities were instrumental factors in the author reading and writing at three years of age. The printed word has always brought the author a sense of joy, freedom, enlightenment, and calm. Writers who have influenced the author have been Nikki Giovanni, Paul Laurence Dunbar, James Baldwin, Edgar Allen Poe, and Richard Bach. The author's first book of poetry, I'm so angry with myself, but I Smell Good received copyright in 1991. That book will be retitled Dripping Sweetness. Although the author began her autobiography in 2005, she became ill, underwent surgery after which she suffered two strokes leaving her hemiplegic and with the use of only one hand. Unable to type as rapidly as before, the author undertook the writing of her Life's Opera in the form of short stories and poems exclusively with her right hand. This was done in an effort to share her personal account of overcoming major obstacles through abiding faith, stamina, and perseverance. Adrea has Bachelor of Science Degrees in Management and Criminal Justice Administration, in addition to a State of California Private Investigator License, which Adrea considers a Master degree, essentially. I am a cosmic being, schematically designed for exploration, utilizing 'higher-order' critical thinking. I engage a complex network of creative action within my community (a fraternalized composite of hyper-individualism) re-imagined and re-routed for charity and equality of theologies predicated upon the thesis of the integration of immense creativity, thus my role as a human
