Some of my Published Essays

 Pain: The Body, Mind, Spirit

https://www.bodymindspiritonline.com/pain-the-body-mind-spirit/

America Needs Empathy

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2023/09/on-that-sept-11-we-all-shared-empathy-imagine-if-we-shared-it-today-with-understanding-of-others-diane-vogel-ferri.html?fbclid=IwAR3dhZ-hcAabn52HFCZEGNeXI9-TZ6y-xVQp-rklmTlm0V0DJg6Wn6K4idk

The Liberty to Read

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2023/04/the-liberty-to-read-diane-vogel-ferri.html

Voting Your Conscience

https://www.cleveland.com/opinion/2024/10/your-values-your-vote-an-easy-to-follow-guide-to-voting-your-conscience-diane-vogel-ferri.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawGGGZlleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHYCvpsW916a_M_fq6JIbRpkZmn3eiYj-vecXqbOTPMDgGFJFXnmwAupoOw_aem_f3fTQLXqwxYNjcBeGVa0AQ

A Question for Women

https://dissidentvoice.org/2024/10/a-question-for-women/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGGHERleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHRE6ahwBbxY7TItApBsK0b5RNc-FD6qqHQeK19JhnYcPOfMH4mlGOjMgNQ_aem_m4fhSqyZ6XI5IHLYpWK9bA

Book Recommendations

Shepherd.com is a book recommendation website. They asked me to tell about books that I enjoyed that also related to my own book, NO LIFE BUT THIS. The topic is Strong, Persistent Women. 

https://shepherd.com/best-books/strong-persistent-women?fbclid=IwY2xjawGGEAtleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHd8bm6Zr2G3KtfM94RvyoPb9I_nCA9gmYDubhdD41C4qQak8C5MsIc4KJg_aem_qiUFtcn7tQQ5bO_4H8UPmw

A Slow Journey to Totality

 

The title and cover of my new poetry book seems to about the total eclipse that we experienced last April. In a way it is. There is one poem about the eclipse that contains the phrase "slow journey to totality." But as I pondered a title I realized that many of the poems were about the desire to continue to grow, learn, and experience new things as we age---until we are whole.  And so, it is both. 

Diane Vogel Ferri's tender and emotive new poetry sequence, A Slow Journey to Totality, leaves a bold and generous "portal open for" the reader too. join her in exploring a lifetime encompassing innocence, longing, loss and personal evolution--through hard and soft, open and heavy and sometimes "hollow arms"; through faith, hope, parenthood, and myriad layers of relationship; as well as through "decades of music" and brilliant mystery"--to find meaning, beauty, and well-earned light in the fullness of time. Ferri deserves gratitude for allowing us to accompany her on this journey, and for providing navigational landmarks to guide us on our own.

John Burroughs, U.S. National Beat Poet Laureate, 2022-23