More Than Poetic Musings

This poem is for my Solo Parents Society PALS group. They are an amazing herd! Remember Remember the sin that once brought disgrace...

Today I’m sharing a hard poem I wrote, one that has been years in the making. It tells the story of the journey both myself and friends...

"The All-American" is the superb tale of two girls, Bertha, age 16, and Flossie, age 12, in 1952 Michigan. Bertha is failing at all the...

"This Is Where It Ends" is the delightful tale of Minerva Jenkins, a 94 year-old widow living in the Appalachian Mountains of Kentucky in...

"With Every Memory" tells the tale of Lori Mendenhall, a woman who was in a car crash with her family that killed her teenage son and...

For all my fellow solo parents who are working so hard every day to parent and heal from their wounds. Craggy soil Mixed with grating...

"The Woman from Lydia" tells the tale of Euodia (aka Lydia in the book of Acts) and her life post-conversion after the visit of Paulos...

"The Swindler's Daughter" by Stephanie H. McGee tells the tale of Lillian, a young woman in 1912 Atlanta, Georgia, raised by a widowed...

This year in Women's Bible Study, we were asked to look for who God was revealed to be in each chapeter. At the end of the year, we...

I have read numerous books on the atrocities committed in WWII. I looked forward to this one written on the Bataan Death March and the...

Jennifer Deibel has done it again with another amazing Irish romance novel, this time an Irish Cinderella story. Our two main characters...

"Daughter of Eden: Eve's Story" is the latest release by well-known and acclaimed Biblical Fiction author, Jill Eileen Smith. The novel...

"The Rose and the Thistle" is a story that takes place at the start of the reign of King George the First of England in 1715. Lady Blythe...

"Everything is Just Beginning" is a coming-of-age novel beginning on December 31, 1989. It tells the story of Michael Sullivan, a young...

I wrote this today based off our Women's Bible Study lesson on 1 Samuel 11-12 and Psalm 16. We were encouraged to write our own psalm of...

This poem began through what I say to my puppy every morning. The more I thought about those words, the more I realized their beauty....

On Monday nights, I join the Solo Parent Society's PALS group (Parenting After the Loss of a Spouse) meeting. It's been a little more...

This was the first time I decided to read a Christmas novella, but being a fan of this author, I decided to give it a chance. It is a...

“Beneath Bending Skies” is the second book I read by Jane Kilpatrick. With her previous book, I gave what seemed to me to be a rather...

As a girl, I adored L. M. Montgomery's books. When the description of this book came across my path as a book set on modern-day Prince...