Take Off Your Sunglasses

Cheryle Wallace was born March 12,1962 in the small suburban town of Boonton Township, New Jersey.  She is the oldest of four children.  Her parents now retired, still live in the same small town where she and her siblings were raised.  She attended the local grammer school and then on to Morris Catholic High School in Denville, NJ until graduating in 1980.

 Cheryle has always been a dreamer and her dreams translated into great big vivid stories.  She loved to sit and read and her fantasies were very real to her.  As a teenager she began to write a daily journal.  Some days her entries simply read..."I hate myself", or "Who am I?"

Cheryle never set out to become a writer, but as she traveled across the country and met many different and interesting people, she naturally developed stories and put them into written word.  After attending college in Syracuse for a short time, many of the experiences she lived through in the 1980's lead her to write even more unbelievably raw, honest stories, which she hopes by sharing with others, they will help someone live a better, happier life.

For Cheryle writing is a form of therapeutic release of what is heavy on her heart and reach out to others that seek relief and reasons for hope.  In her thirties, she found a copy of "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings", by Maya Angelou, and after reading proclaimed her life had changed.  Immediately she felt compelled to write about real life pain that young women encounter, yet like her, kept hidden deeply in their subconscious.  Now she uses "paper as her doctor".

In this first effort as a writer, Cheryle titles her book "Take Off Your Sunglasses", urging women to take off whatever they use to hide who they really are and what they are really feeling.  Can we find the courage to let the world see us from the inside out and be true to ourselves.

Cheryle resides in New Jersey and has two young adult children from a prior marriage.

You may reach Cheryle at her blogs at http://voicesofyoungwomenincrisis.blogspot.com/ or http://hubpages.com/author/cherylej/latest/?rss