What I Wrote When No One Was Watching: A Memoir Based on a Black Girl's 1975 Diary and Her Becoming (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798995653417)

Nearly fifty years after it was written, a teenage diary resurfaces, revealing the raw, unfiltered voice of a fifteen-year-old Black girl growing up on Chicago's West Side.

In What I Wrote When No One Was Watching, Dorrie Foster revisits those handwritten pages with the wisdom of experience, tracing an extraordinary journey from streetlights, Soul Train Saturdays, and first love to the halls of the Reagan White House, a successful career in radio, and a life shaped by faith, resilience, and purpose.

Through family turmoil, racism, heartbreak, triumph, and unexpected opportunities, this deeply personal memoir explores how an ordinary girl became an extraordinary woman-not because life was easy, but because she refused to let hardship define her.

As she reflects on the dreams, fears, and quiet courage of her fifteen-year-old self, Dorrie discovers that God was writing a greater story all along.

What I Wrote When No One Was Watching is a moving testament to hope, forgiveness, and that ordinary people can have an extraordinary life when we trust God's purpose-even when we cannot yet see where the path will lead.