Actually, it was who. My mother was my first inspiration, she instilled me and my siblings the importance of reading and writing at an early age. I also use to read story’s I had written to my family when I was a child. The inspiration for my story came after watching a documentary about dolphins on tv with my 8 year- old son Ausar, who is now 16. At that time and just as it states in the book, when the program ended he said to me “mom I want to be a dolphin” I told him he could not be a dolphin but he insisted that he wanted to be one. And while cooking, the story came to life. It was so vivid I stopped what I was doing to write it down. Although my husband Leon did not inspire me to write my story, he was a great inspiration in helping my story come to life. After being tucked away for many years I took the manuscript out and read it to him and afterwards he said “Terri you should get your story published” and we did.

My story is about a boy named Max who wants to become a dolphin. It is also about dreams, family and believing that dreams can come true.