I am a published poet.For years,I worked as a Social Worker with abused and neglected children and their families.I started writing in my forties after the suicide of my brother,Patrick.I write about;loss,love,acceptance and inspiration.I would like to meet other people who started writing later in life.Some of my poems have been published in a facebook anthology,and in two online magazines.
                                  When I am not writing,I enjoy going to bookstores,taking long walks,and going to the movies.I am easygoing and love the simple things in life.Friends say I am funny(sometimes),bright,creative,stubborn,and loyal.

Favorite Quotes

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?-John Keats

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good. -Dylan Thomas

"Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land, "This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon." In the afternoon they came unto a land In which it seemed always afternoon. -Alfred Lord Tennyson

The thought of our past years in me doth breed Perpetual benediction: not indeed For that which is most worthy to be blest— Delight and liberty, the simple creed Of Childhood, whether busy or at rest, With new-fledged hope still fluttering in his breast .-William Wordworth