That Was Then

About the Book

That Was Then is a selection of midlife poems about midlife in the mid-1970’s and 1980’s. Tender, biting, silly, and honest; religion, spiders, adultery, and death all have their moments in That Was Then. Leaving us to wonder What Comes Next?

About the Author

Margaret Holmes, a self-described Renaissance Dilettante has not yet found a topic of no interest nor has she found a role model. Travel, performance, hang gliding, volunteering, teaching, dieting—although each amusing in its own way, none was enough. Those who did these things full time were to be admired, but not necessarily emulated. In what has become a surprisingly lengthy life, whenever two roads diverged, she usually selected the one less suitable. That has made a lot, if not all, the difference. Oh well.