This year I learned to prune what once felt like me. To stop watering worries and just let them drift out to the furthest corner of the sea. I decided that I would make a deal and trade old doubts for a steadier seed, and I discovered that less noise is exactly what I need.
Now I am booming, zooming, and blooming in decisions I once would delay, just as the sunlight that studies the night into day. I’ve grown past the “maybes,” the tangled and torn and turned my “I can’t” into “watch how I’m reborn.”
My name is Erykah Gray, but most people know me as Miss Gray. I’m from Centreville, a small town in southern Mississippi that I’m proud to call home. I earned my bachelor’s degree in English from The University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg and later completed a Master of Arts in Literature at Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia. I’m currently a doctoral student at the University of Louisiana at Monroe because I truly believe learning never stops. Teaching isn’t just what I do; it’s a part of who I am. I love speaking, writing, and encouraging others to find their voice. Each day in my classroom, I work to make learning engaging and meaningful while helping my students grow into confident, inspired thinkers ready to take on the world. Here, I hope to do the very same.
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