Dreams don’t die BY AUDRENA C. HOWELL
My favorite quote is from Henry David Thoreau: “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the live you imagined.” I have not always abided by this. Truth be told, I have not always believed it. I never thought that I would live life as an actress and model again. I walked away from both for over 18 years. My desire to be an actress began as a four-year-old girl. Every week I sat in my family’s living room to watch the elegant and graceful actress, the late Diahann Carroll, portray a nurse in the television sitcom, “Julia“. I admired everything about her! She was my inspiration for acting. Throughout my childhood and adolescent years, I performed in stage plays 14