Journey Away

About the Book

I began to write poetry and short stories to express the unspeakable pain of losing a child when my son, a multi-talented dynamic young man, had endured several cruel twists of fate which forced him to return home to live with me. These were to be the final five years of his life, which ended one month after his diagnosis of leukemia. There was a certain release in my struggle to find the best words to put down. Some people have told me that my writings have helped them deal with the hurts in their life, and to sympathize with mine. I am humble and complimented to hear this.

About the Author

A native Virginian, I was blessed with loving, practical, talented parents - a younger sister, dozens of cousins with matching aunts and uncles Raised with the constant sound of music, witty people, and the cultural exposure available in a small city boasting three notable colleges in their time, I was lucky to be in an idyllic southern lifestyle. Always a singer, I studied piano and voice with private teachers and later in college. I loved English, History and Composition in high school. In college my major was Business Principles and minor in Music and Voice. I began to write poetry and short stories to express the unspeakable pain of losing a child when my son, a multi-talented dynamic young man, had endured several cruel twists of fate which forced him to return home to live with me. These were to be the final five years of his life, which ended one month after his diagnosis of leukemia. There was a certain release in my struggle to find the best words to put down. Some people have told me that my writings have helped them deal with the hurts in their life, and to sympathize with mine. I am humble and complimented to hear this. After 35 years in Florida I moved back to the hills and mountains dear to me. I live near my sister in Tennessee and am about two hours from Bristol. Recently inspired by the history of my own ancestors’ migration from old world Germany to southwest Virginia in the 1700s, I found myself writing my first actual book, entitled Journey Away.