Sherry D. Henderson is an Adult Nurse Practitioner (ANP) with a nursing career expanding over thirty-nine years. Thirty-six years spent serving Veterans at the Denver Department of Veterans Affairs. Her experience includes Staff Nurse, Charge Nurse, Nurse Manager, Nursing Supervisor. She recently retired as an ANP. She loves to immerse herself in the deep thoughts of knowledge, especially those related to family history, genealogy and human behavior. She is a world traveler, adventure seeker and knowledge thirster. She has a passion for watching sports, reading and watching vivacious documentaries. She has audaciously taken to pen and paper to write her most vivid and riveting memoirs.

Black Magnolia: An Unequivocal Southern Belle is the wisdom rich story of an African American raised in the unsophisticated backwoods of Mississippi. Sherry Henderson tells her story through the beautiful Mississippi flowers that surrounded her from home to home. Just as all those flowers came together to create a bouquet of symbolic relationship, each chapter of her story blends with the next to reveal the blossoming tapestry of her life.

Grounded in the wisdom of life-changing seeds her great-grandmother planted into her psychic at an early age, Sherry learned the value of being true to herself and seeing herself as equal to others. Although a woman of few words, her great-grandmother watered and nurtured those seeds that would ultimately produce an amazing adult.

Share the journey of and African American girl who grows to see herself as Black Magnolia: An Unequivocal Southern Belle, despite the challenges of growing up poor in the rural south. You will enjoy this riveting and inspiring story as Sherry welcomes you into the intimate, adventurous, and eyes-wide-open space of her life.