About

Stella is the proud mother of four almost grown children. She was married to Paul at the young age of 16 and had her first beautiful child by the time she was 18. After the birth of the oldest two, she and her family moved to various countries in Central America to do humanitarian work. This is also where Stella and Paul adopted their two younger children, one from Haiti and the other from Panama.

Stella has lived in four countries and several states in the last 20 years and still loves to travel but her kids refuse to move around as much as they did when they were younger, so she has to stay put for a few years to propagate an allusion of normalcy for them – though she believes society’s definition of normalcy is subjective, stifling, and highly overrated.

After all the little nestlings flew the coop for elementary school, Stella headed off to school too. She took advantage of the opportunity to finally attend college where she excelled in her studies, was invited to Phi Theta Kappa, the national honor society, and was chosen as a regional member of the year in 2003. Stella also had the honor of being appointed to the All-Missouri Academic Team in 2003.

Stella loves to write. She joined her college newspaper where she took first place in News Writing and Editorials, as well as placing in several other areas, on a regional level. Stella’s bragging rights grew to include a national award for layout and design and the prestigious appointment as a Leader of the Student Press of North America by the Associated Collegiate Press.

Stella is a columnist for Kaieteur News, one of three national newspapers in Guyana, South America. Her column addresses the various political and social issues that effect this developing country and it’s beautiful people. Stella and her family now live in Texas and she is quickly adapting to the very proud Lone Star state. When her publisher asked her what she was doing in “Bush Country,” Stella simply replied, “Well, someone has to keep an eye on that man.”