Before Times: 1996 Atlanta Olympics

In the beginning, I began my consciousness in the middle of a U-Haul Van cab as my, former University Of Arkansas - Pine Bluff Gymnast, mother drives from South Jamaica Queens, New York to North Metro-Atlanta, Georgia just before the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta.

I remember asking myself "why does mom have her foot out the window?"

Everything was passing by so fast. I was almost sure her foot would get knocked off.

It never did.