Alice Lawrence-Emuoyibo, of Austell, GA is a retired businesswoman, who grew up in Thomasville, Alabama. She moved to Boston after high school. The author holds a Bachelors degree in Business and Economics from the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She earned a Masters Degree in Business Administration from Bostons Suffolk University. She finished her MBA when Okie was 2, and worked in Boston before moving to Atlanta in 2003. An avid childrens book reader, she read aloud to children in the Boston Schools and ran a read aloud program for children residing in a homeless shelter with their mothers, next door to her office in Boston during the 1990s. Alice gives childrens books to family members and shares stories of her son, Okie growing up in Boston. Encouraged by her family to write her own book, she wrote, Mommy and Me at the Boston Kite Festival. This is a story about a 5 year-old boy and his mother who attend a Kite Festival resulting with a color picture of Okie flying his kite, appearing in a Boston Sunday newspaper. The author has been divorced from Okies father since their son was a college sophomore. Okie Emuoyibo lives and works in Boston.