This book reflects the quiet moments as an elderly woman in retirement looks back upon her life as she grows up in a very natural and self sustaining family farm in Illinois during the early fourties. Rememberances are of childhood life there . Contemplations are put forth in rhyme of what the future brought and may bring. It will also reflects her vision of what her numerous years of living in Ketchikan, Alaska brought to her and sorts out the reasons for retiring to her birth state of Illinois. She puts forth her observations of her life in Illinois during retirement and shows her love of...
This book reflects the quiet moments as an elderly woman in retirement looks back upon her life as she grows up in a very natural and self sustaining ...
1850 Ireland; after five years of the potato famine Sean Boyle and his only son Patrick leave their home in the beautiful country side. Having lost his wife Emily and their two daughters due to the harsh reality of i all, Sean takes the little hand of his son and begin their trek across the island to Mullingar hoping to find their way to a better place. They were coming to America chasing that dream. Sean was illerate and taken advantage of when a shister sold him a ticket to Liverpool, not to London where he inteded to find passage to America. The generosity of "Ol Brodie," the former...
1850 Ireland; after five years of the potato famine Sean Boyle and his only son Patrick leave their home in the beautiful country side. Having lost hi...
This work is a revision of Private Thoughts in Rhyme published in 2007 with additional writings of my thoughts in rhyme that reflects times from Illinois to Alaska and back. The work includes present and future love of nature and family. The revised work includes additional thoughts of seasons, war, and non-categorized work. I have included a few illustrations of my Original oil paintings.
This work is a revision of Private Thoughts in Rhyme published in 2007 with additional writings of my thoughts in rhyme that reflects times from Illin...
Gerda Braun, a frumpy cigarette smoking, beer drinking elderly widow and landlord who lives with her cat "Cleo" in the small fishing/tourist community of Province Town on the Northern tip of Cape Cod. She is fictious as are many of her murder mysteries; although some are fictional accounts of similar cases where the author has taken an abundance of artistic liberties. Her story is based on her home and her coffee klatch friends where they meet regularly. So follow Gerda and her friends through these incidents and their outcomes in Providence Town, New York City and an extended vacation with a...
Gerda Braun, a frumpy cigarette smoking, beer drinking elderly widow and landlord who lives with her cat "Cleo" in the small fishing/tourist community...