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  • Love’s Second Chance is about a woman who saw her mother as an ugly disfigured woman, until she learned the circumstances of her mother’s disfigurement. Rebekah goes on a self-destruction trip in the abyss of life that lasted over twenty years.
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  • Your condition does not have to be your conclusionThe book is an effort to educate readers about how African American women, and minority women business owners endured obstacles and challenges in the 1950s,
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  • In her memoir, And Still I Cry, Barbara chronicles with disarming honesty her journey from poverty, physical and sexual abuse and drug addiction to personal and professional success and fulfillment. Hoping that her story will inspire others to overcome their own obstacles, Barbara shares deeply private experiences and how she turned pain into purpose and fear into fuel. A powerful testimonial to the resiliency of the human spirit, And Still I Cry is a rare and inspiring story of courage, dignity and determination in the face of unimaginable odds.
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  • Yes You Can is about how to start and operate a business while pursuing your personal goals. It is both inspirational, informative, educational and a step-by-step plan to success. This book is a must read for potential entrepreneurs, novices and the experienced business owner. It details steps to achieve success through entrepreneurship
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  • Someday Is Now is every woman’s story who is trying to change her life and make a better life for herself and her family. This book shows the true spirit of a woman and how she made it in spite of the odds against her. The author discusses turning obstacles into opportunities, chaos into challenges, challenges into possibilities, and possibilities into accomplishments. She expounds on determination, persistence and not allowing anyone to define your limitations. She focuses on loving yourself, not worrying about what you cannot do and thanking God for what you can do.
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  • Eyes of the Beholder is about several women who struggle with different challenges professionally, spiritually and personal. It focuses on several types of relationships and social-ills with which we are faced daily. Eyes of the Beholder, allows women to understand that they may have junk in their trunk, but they can use that junk to help others. Eyes of the Beholder shows that love has nothing to do with race or a dress size. It talks about not allowing a disability to define who you are. The book is not about sex, it’s about love.
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  • Mind Bungee Jumping contains 55 original poems and 2,000 motivational quotations. It contains words of faith, love, inspiration, motivation, and encouragement. I use original quotations, quotations of others, Bible scriptures, prayers, and poems to prompt readers to follow their dreams, strive for success, inner peace, and to live their best life. This book contains lessons learned from my life’s experiences.
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  • Bend in the Road is about reinventing yourself after the death of a loved one. Often when our spouses, or significant other precedes us in death, we feel alone in life and we do not want to continue living without our companion. This book is about my life after my husband’s death. It’s my testimony of how God changed me into a woman, who learned how to travel the road of life alone and teach others along the way. I share with the reader how I dealt with suddenly living alone, without the love of my life by my side. I discuss my depression and how I got through that difficult time.
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  • Patches is a book of short stories about life, inspiration, and many examples of the goodness of God. The book also showcases the many opportunities in life where people help other people.
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Books

THROUGH IT ALL

Your condition does not have to be your conclusion

Through it All,” is my eighth published book and may be purchased on Amazon.com. The book is an effort to educate readers about how African American women, and minority women business owners endured obstacles and challenges in the 1950s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s and 1990s, yet succeeded against the odds. The book is a story about a black woman’s journey from the south and humble beginnings in the 1950s, and how I faced racism, sexism, gender-biases, workforce discrimination, disparity treatment and on-the-job sexual harassment from white male supervisors in a male-dominated 1960s, 1970s and 1980s workforce.

Through it All traces retired State Senator Barbara Robinson’s journey from the outhouse in the deep south ––– Georgia and Alabama, ––– to Maryland’s courthouse ––– the municipal court, the district court, the supreme bench, and the circuit court; to the boardroom of a successful business empire she founded ––– STAR Associates Inc., SelfPride, Inc., BeuMar Inc.; and to the Maryland General Assembly ––– the House of Delegates and the State Senate. The book discusses the my struggle to integrate the restrooms in the Maryland court system; my successful fight for women to be allowed to wear pants to work and the right for African American women to wear the natural hairstyle in the workplace.

The book talks about how I endured being called the “n” word on a regular basis, and the intimidation attempt by someone placing a hangman’s noose on my desk in my office at work. However, being undeterred, I went on to make history by becoming the first woman, the first African American woman, and the first African American person, to become chief of the traffic division, deputy administrator of the district court, the supreme bench and the circuit court. She was a member of the team that developed the Clerk of the Court’s position that was originally called the “Supper Clerk,” and occupied by Saundra Banks.

Through it All talks about how under the auspices of the Community College of Baltimore (CCB), the author developed on-the-job training programs, wrote the curricula designed to increase the chances of more African Americans to be hired in Maryland’s court system, and increased the promotional opportunities for those who were already hired, thereby increasing their salaries.

The book also talks about corruption in a state agency and the unscrupulous manner in which some candidates running for public office, operate their campaign. It highlights some African American women who made a difference in Maryland and sends the message that we too have, “hidden figures.”

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Bend in the Road is about reinventing yourself after the death of a loved one. Often when our spouses, or significant other precedes us in death, we feel alone in life and we do not want to continue living without our companion. This is the hardest book I have ever written. It forced me to reflect on my memories of a love that was both beautiful and emotionally draining and one I will never experience again. It also forced me to reflect on my own mortality. This book is about my life after my husband's death. It is my testimony of how God changed me into a woman, who learned how to travel the road of life alone and teach others along the way. I share with the reader how I dealt with suddenly living alone, without the love of my life by my side. I discuss my depression and how I got through that difficult time. 

I discuss the next phase of my life, where it took me after my husband's death. The book contains lessons I have learned, in my lifetime. Some lessons are motivational statements I often use to get me through the day. Some are words of encouragement I received from my colleagues and friends. People often say that children believe in magic. That is true but I am presenting these motivational statements to let the reader know that magic is inside of us all; it’s called Aconfidence.@ If we have confidence in ourselves and faith that God does answer prayers, we are on the road to healing and peace. I hope my message helps the readers dance on after their loss and find their own steps in the world. I don't know what tomorrow will bring, or if there will be a tomorrow for me; therefore, I will live today as if it were the last.

Someday Is Now is every woman's story who is trying to change her life and make a better life for herself and her family. This book shows the true spirit of a woman and how she made it despite the odds against her. The author discusses turning obstacles into opportunities, chaos into challenges, challenges into possibilities, and possibilities into accomplishments. She expounds on determination, persistence and not allowing anyone to define your limitations. She focuses on loving yourself, not worrying about what you can’t do and thanking God for what you can do.

Someday Is Now sends the message that you can change your life if you change your attitude about your life. It sends the message to men and women that they can take control of their lives and become whatever and whomever they want to become if they are willing to work at developing themselves. It sends the message that how you live your life is your choice. Don't let anyone take away your self-esteem or diminish your self-confidence. It sends the message not to worry about growing old and when you feel old to remember that growing old is no more than a bad habit that a busy person has no time to form. If you are busy living your dream, you don't have time to worry about getting old. Why worry about something if worry won’t change the situation? All of them are messages from this book.

Someday is Now is written in two parts: the first part is called "Genesis." It’s about the first half of the authors life and the many potholes of life in which I stepped. The second part is called "What's God Got to Do With It?" My grandmother tried to instill in me at a very young age that God can do anything but fail. This part of the book is about my journey of faith, life's realities and life's difficulties. My reason for writing the book is to share with the world the message that it does not matter where you started, it’s where you end up that makes the difference. I wanted to let everyone know how good God has been to me. The book will affect the lives of people in a positive way. In many cases, it will give them inspiration and a renewed belief in themselves. It tells the reader to dream big and do great things to develop their goals and make their dreams come true.


nd Bungee Jumping contains 55 original poems and 2,000 motivational quotations. It contains words of faith, love, inspiration, motivation, and encouragement. I use original quotations, quotations of others, Bible scriptures, prayers, and poems to prompt readers to follow their dreams, strive for success, inner peace, and to live their best life. This book contains lessons learned from my life's experiences.

Mind Bungee Jumping is written in two sections. The first section contains original poems that send different messages. Poems that send messages of love are written under the heading, Poems in the Key of Love. Poems that reflect everyday life are under the heading, Street Life. Poems written to motivate and encourage readers are written under the heading, Motivation and Encouragement. Poems about family life are written under the heading, Family Ties. Poems about African Americans are written under the heading, Music of my People. Poems about life as I see it are written under the heading, Through My Eyes. Poems that contain messages of friendship are written under the heading, Take My Hand. Poems written from a spiritual perspective are written under the heading, Praise and Worship.

The second section of Mind Bungee Jumping contains motivational quotations and affirmations, this section is called, Wisdom of the Ages. Quotations contained in this section are reflections of original quotations and personal thoughts; words of wisdom as quoted by some of my personal friends and colleagues; prayers and inspirational messages from Bible scriptures; words of wisdom from the pulpit as spoken by Dr. Frank M. Reid, III, who, at the time, was the pastor of Bethel AME Church in Baltimore; others are quotations from various individuals whom I respect and on whose shoulders, I stand.


 

Love's Second Chance

Love’s Second Chance is about a woman who saw her mother as an ugly disfigured woman, until she learned the circumstances of her mother’s disfigurement. Rebekah goes on a self-destruction trip in the abyss of life that lasted over twenty years. She and nine other women, who have gone through many trials, experienced many obstacles and overcame many hurdles in life before founding an organization to help other women. Love’s Second Chance discusses some of the women they helped and the men in the lives of those women. 

The book is also about a man loving a woman so much he’s willing to wait a lifetime for her. For Beulah, Rebekah’s mother, life had seemed to lay nothing but pain and torment on her doorstep. But the shining light of her existence was her daughter, Rebekah. 

However, as Rebekah got older, she managed to find things to blame her mother for and she became increasingly embarrassed of Beulah.  This embarrassment created a wall of silence between mother and daughter that caused a deep and quiet suffering within the heart of Beulah. Day-day-by-day it tore her apart. 

The truth was that Beulah was protecting Rebekah by withholding a secret. Rebekah learned of the secret after her mother had died. Faced with the guilt of understanding what happened to her mother and reflecting on how she had treated her, Rebekah sank into a long destructive period of depression. 

This is a heart-wrenching, yet beautiful story of how Rebekah, and nine other women fought to rebuild and reclaim their lives after falling into the darkness of life created by circumstances sometimes beyond their control. Often hanging by a thread, each of these women had to find something––anything––to help them to believe in life once again.                  

Rebekah had to look the hardest and the deepest to find that core within herself that allowed her to rise up and find her life, and her love.

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