My Valleys Are Temporary

About the Book

After years of finding herself and learning self love comes first, she grew into a mature and lovely young lady. She has a heart of gold and all she really want in life is to be happy, pursue her dreams of writing and reach out to people who has walked in her shoes. Lattice resides in Washington, DC with her family. My Valleys Are Temporary is basically Lattice’s life. This book is filled with poems about growing up in this world feeling unloved, unwanted and why was I born. Living life in self destruction because you just don’t care anymore. Getting to the point where you try to take your life because you just can’t endure the pain, hurt, disappointments and heartache any more. At some point in life, we live down in the valley. The place where nobody feel we are worthy enough to be something and somebody but at some point you have to see the mountain top and begin to climb.

About the Author

Lattice Johnson was born and raised in Washington, DC. She grew up in the Southeast area of DC, living with her mother. Due to her mother facing her own demons, Lattice moved around a lot as well as grew up very quickly. She did know her father but he was in/out her life. With no guidance and feeling unloved, Lattice turned to the streets, men, drugs and whatever she could think of to survive. At the age of thirteen, she gave birth to her first child D’Angelo. Being a teenage mother did come easy for her, because she had a little brother she took care of before she had her own. In her eyes she had two kids. In 2004, she gave birth to her second son, D’Avoni. Lattice attended Sousa Junior High School and that is where her love for journalism grew. She had already vented her trials and tribulations in a journal, but at Sousa she became apart of the Bobcat Newsletter. She learned that writing was a good outlet for her as well as away to help others that has experienced her hurt and pain. With all the downfalls Lattice has taken in her life, she managed to complete high school and attended University of the District of Columbia for journalism. Due to life situation Lattice dropped out of college, to get a job and help provide for her son and brother. She later went to Career Technical Institute where she became a certified Medical Office Administrative.