“Looking down the road to the future, everyone has hope for something better. There’s always that stretch of the imagination that we want to believe that further on is that ‘something better.’ And, for everyone, there is.”In this delightful book, you will travel on a journey to joy beyond the road. The author recounts some of the people she has met in her journey and how they enriched her life. Be intrigued by tales of how she knows that her guardian angel watched out for her. See ...

Everyone wanted to know about her. The scariest thing of all was that she also wanted to know. Eve Summers was lost in her own dead mind. All she knew was the day before. Her whole life had disappeared after she woke up in a tiny cabin on a hillside. Befriended now by a kind woman, but harassed by a police chief, she also wondered about the man that had owned the cabin. So many questions and not one answer to who she was or where she came from.

A moment in time to reflect on the before and the after of life. The old days and the now days for all of us. It takes courage, planning, and determination to let life travel by and not slip by without the feeling of remorse or regret. Live it all, the good, bad, and otherwise. It's your life!My feelings are that poetry is a short read and can be picked up at any relaxing moment to read a few lines. Often, poetry leaves the reader feeling better, more aligned with his or herself, an...

To all my friends and readers who admire poetry.I have compiled 35 poems to warm your heart on a chilly day or soothe you in a moment of stress. For me, poetry is a healing experience. When one writes a poem there is a healing takes place within, and I do believe that when one reads a poem the same thing happens.Here, I have attempted to paint pictures and write music that might flow on the pages and swoop you away to some unknown place of peace and beauty. Poetry fulfills a shrunke...

Poetry is for the heart and soul. Poetry is for everyone. It stirs emotion and feeling in our head and fine-tunes our eyes and ears to accept something out of the ordinary and interpreted only through the mind of the present reader. This book of poems is not theme oriented and tends to wander through life from everyday emotions to lost love. It will take you to the highest mountain or down by the sea, across a lonely bridge or even beyond this life. So, open the book and travel with me. Le...

A coming of age short story.It was a time of decision making and Marlee Sweet was confused...very confused. Her heart was split between two lovers and it was time to make a choice. Roaming the streets of downtown New Orleans and trying to choose which one would have her heart was a tremendous weight on her shoulders.But during this time, she managed to find some fun along the way and experience the ambiance and romance of the city. On one particular day she discovers something about...

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Some of the poems in this book relate to the Holocaust. We Remember the lives of those lost during that horrendous time.This book is about trains and other track poems. Of course, track implies the track of life such as losing track of time, the track before me, and so on. The cover of this book indicates The Last Train. as many trains have been taken off their regular routes and those tracks abandoned or torn up to accommodate trails and footpaths. So, many poems here discuss the p...

There were many poets who inspired me, starting with the poets of my youth. Lord Byron, because he was a rebel and had a club foot, Percy B Shelley because he had the same birthday as me. But mostly because of their intense words that touched me deeply. Yes, I was an impressionable youth. In later years, I have been moved by the poetry of Leonard Cohen, Emily Brontë, Sylvia Plath, Maya Angelou, James Whitcomb Riley, Charles Mackay, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and so many more. Rimes of an Anc...

Brooke is going on an overnight school trip with her grade five class. An out-of-town trip and her mother is not going on this one. Brooke has some tough decisions to make regarding choices. What's right and what's not? Her mother has given her a few rules to follow, and a few choices to make on her own. But with mom not there and temptation so close, will Brooke make the right choices?

This book is not only about writing but about life and how we respond to the world around us. The writer believes that writing is power and who amongst us does not feel powerless at times? How do you bring yourself out of this feeling? Write! Explore your thoughts and feelings and get them down, out of your head and into your everyday living. Set in almost story form, each part takes on a different perspective, a view of how to write, where to start, how to handle your talent. Told in a so...

Cub reporter Blaine Orson goes on her first big interview, but she finds a body instead. RCMP Corporal Roy Archer falls for her innocent- looking beauty but is suspicious too, since the dead man turns out to be her biological father, and she stands to inherit his fortune.Blaine can't believe it when her own mother confesses. But an autopsy reveals she couldn't be the murderer. Then cancelled cheques found in the dead man's safe indicate long-term blackmail by her stepfather.F...