Paula Heariold-Kinney currently lives in the Coachella Valley and loves our beautiful desert community.
As her life became a little less active and more calm, she decided that this relaxed setting was the perfect place to take the time to finally write the memoir.
Paula grew up feeling she had to really dance a kind of delicate dance of being black while living in a white environment, and her powerful memoir tells stories of her youth as she straddled two very different worlds.
In this NBCares Silver Linings she shares an excerpt of her life.
