Author Description

Growing up, I was shy and introverted, so it was like the music, paper and pen (or pencil) were my dearest friends. I enjoyed writing so much it was no surprise to me when I found I had kept the majority of my writings over the years. Now I have the chance to share them with you. The subject matter is all over the map - the poems in some cases reflect the dawning of social awareness and what was going on in the world as well as my life. Some were school assignments. Some are just plain frivolous and silly. Some are full of young adult angst and emotional despair. There are also parts of stories I started and paused for many reasons, reasons that were usually time and family related, but intend to complete now I have the time and inspiration. Yes, some poems are uneven, some are not in meter strictly speaking, but they were from the heart, and I left them that way. Where dates were written on the sheets I have transcribed from handwritten or hand-typed pages, I have included them in the title of each piece. I did not make any effort to analyze them or change them, other than correcting spelling and an annoying tendency I apparently used to have to use abbreviations (i.e., "tho" instead of "though"), and have typed them into digital format from the sometimes very faded copies, then separated them into the decades from which they came. Most were not titled so I left them that way and simply numbered them. I hope you enjoy this collection.