"The Sex Life of the Everyday Woman," is the story of poet Dina Byrne Lopez who ends her marriage to her husband of almost two decades. His addiction to cocaine, hence his name...Cocaine Baby...and inability to change pushes Dina into a life of self discovery. Her sexuality is a large part of her new life as she falls in love with Will, someone she knew before she married Cocaine Baby. Her search for love and her longing to undo the addictions in her life that began with her father and in her childhood are explored in Kareena Maxwell's introspective and poetic style..."Dina is lonely. Her...

"The Granny Chronicles: Learning to Speak Leopard," is a caretaker's memoir about the relationship between a mother, with dementia, and a daughter, and the life long language that over time changed. During their more fluid time together the daughter learned to live according to the mother's needs. The overall lack of boundaries and the need for the daughter to be separate in order to become an adult fostered distance in miles for twenty years. The mother developed dementia and when she could no longer manage her life well enough to pay her bills and manage her health issues, the daughter took...

"The God of My Shoes," was alive inside me since I was a child and the episode including the sounds, the contrast in families, and the deep shame that I was responsible. It was the late 1950's when as a small person, I was left to drift along the avenues and streets to find myself. I was in need of shoes for Christmas. The need was not to be met. The episode echoed inside me for years until I finally allowed it to live outside of my sadness. After writing it, I entered it into The Apache County literary contest and it was awarded first place. After that, the local newspaper published it in...