As a child, I lived in a poor neighborhood but I always wanted to help others even when I was unable to help myself. I grew up with an innate desire to one day to be able to help others to be all they could be in society. In the course of my teen years I made some mistakes that later I counts as blessings. I became a teenage mother who dropped out of school and married. My marriage was not successful so I got a divorce. I wind up working in textiles to support my children. One thing remained constant over the course of my life was the fact I never lost the desire to help others.

To fast forward to 1996, by this year, I had experienced the loss of my father, mother, three sisters  and my brother. Bitterness and anger were two emotions that I felt cling to me. I had no idea that I was getting ready to embark on an adventure that would become a career and allow me to fulfill that innate desire to help others that I always felt.

My children had grown into adults and the textile industry was beginning to be shipped over seas in the late 1990s. I started to re-assess my life course and decided to get the education that I neglected as a young adult. With my GED and a determination, I enrolled in college and obtained a bachelor degree in social work 2002. By 2004, I was hired as a hospice social worker. This job was more than a place to go each day to work to make a living but rather it was a place to minister to hurting individuals and their families. 

During the course of my tenure with hospice, i learned that there were so many people who had no idea what hospice was.  Like myself, when I was going through my family illnesses before their  deaths, I really believe that I could have benefited from hospice services. Therefore, I wanted to share what hospice is and some stories of the patients I had the opportunity to minister to over the last ten years. Hence, my writing a book and publishing it in 2014 called "My Little People A Social Worker's Journey". The book is in e-book and paperback available at amazon and Barnes and Nobles.

Annie Clara Brown