Dr. Tamika LeRay Otubure has spent her life helping others find their voices: first as a speech-language pathologist for fifteen years, and now as a professor preparing master’s-level students in speech-language pathology. With Like Dynamite, she finally shares her own.

Like Dynamite: True Stories of What Happens When You Finally Light the Fuse is a warm, honest and often funny memoir in stories about family, faith, love and loss, written for anyone still searching for who they really are. Its companion journal turns each story into a guided reflection for readers and groups.

Tamika holds a doctorate in education and is also the author of Alive, At Twelve, the journal Holiday Heart, and several children’s books. A New York native, she lives in Maryland with her husband and their dog.

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