PORTRAIT OF A FAMILY: REMEMBERING MOM

About the Book

This is a book of poems written about the author's family as she reflects after her mother has passed on. It is a celebration of the mother's life, but also a book to minister to others as they walk the same path...."first holidays" without her mom....shares memories of those holidays of her childhood. It speaks of the eight years of Friday night dinners with her mom and her last years of dementia as she and her brother come visit and become known as the Crock-pot Gang. From big extended family Fourth of July picnics in the 1950’s to the 2008 Fourth of July celebration with her son and daughter-in-law in Boston, listening to the Boston Pops on the Charles River, her remembrances are shared. Her mother’s love of family and the memories of all those years is the essential theme behind the poem. It is a celebration of family. The strength of families is the strength of nations- the strength of the world.

About the Author

Mary Ellen Abbott has been a high school art teacher for thirty nine years. She has retired from teaching and has returned to her first love of writing. She has one son, Ross, who lives in Boston Massachusetts with his wife, Amanda. Ms. Abbott resides in Jonesboro, Arkansas, but loves exploring Boston, Martha’s Vineyard, Provincetown and Nantucket with her son. She has traveled to sixteen countries on five continents.