Bright Side With Tekneshia

Raised – Atlanta, Georgia from age 4 on Diagnosed – Epilepsy – Petit Mal Temporal Lobe – age 6 Diagnosed – Multiple Sclerosis in 1986 Career – taught middle school for over 15 years – certified to teach in  Georgia, Connecticut, and West Virginia & North Carolina Accomplishments: put in a two mile long nature trail in Danbury,  Connecticut and wrote a book of environmental activities for teachers  and students to utilize while on the trail. I was presented the key to the  city of Danbury by the Mayor. ” Healing Words, Life Lessons to Inspire” published by Tate Publishing  was nationally released on February 22, 2011. I speak to many groups  on topics ranging from,”Awareness of the Self” to “Parenting” and  “Healing Relationships.” I also speak to groups on the topics of Epilepsy  and Multiple Sclerosis as those are the situations I had to deal with  in order to learn what I needed to learn. This book was entered for  nomination for the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry for 2012. Selected to be one