“Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that.   Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”   MLK Some of us are ...

Did you ever read the book of Genesis? (1:28-30) The first chapter  makes it clear that God created the earth and gave it to humans to nurtu...

 Pain: The Body, Mind, Spirit https://www.bodymindspiritonline.com/pain-the-body-mind-spirit/ America Needs Empathy https://www.cleveland.co...

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 BU...

  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 po...

A new essay published by the lovely Braided Way--about a dark time in my life and the grace that followed. https://braidedway.org/the-crooke...

  Thank you to Jason Ryberg at Spartan Press for producing such a beautiful book. It is available on Amazon, Barnes and Noble and your local...

  My Favorite Books of 2021 (in a general order) Fiction: Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr -  My all-time favorite book (so far) mig...

https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/diane-vogel-ferri/no-life-but-this/ NO LIFE BUT THIS A NOVEL OF EMILY WARREN ROEBLING BY DIANE VO...

https://www.cleveland.com/community/2021/02/solon-authors-biographical-novel-highlights-feminist-ahead-of-her-time.html

  So I Write I’ve always loved this quote by Stephen King: If God gives you something to do, why in the world wouldn’t you do it? So I wri...

No Life But This is based on the life of Emily Warren Roebling, considered the first woman field engineer and highly instrumental in the bui...

  April 24, 2020 Talking to myself about publishing my third novel, which is biographical fiction: As of this date I have been rejected a...

  Under My Mask there is no lipstick  on my pale thinning lips under my mask no celebration of birthdays or summer we are bleached ou...

If tomorrow comes and we, who love the world, whose vested interests are in the stranger, in liberty and justice for all, we stakehol...

  I voted today. I voted for common decency, respect for all human beings, and compassion for those less fortunate.   I voted for the princi...

At some point in our lives we have probably all learned about forgiveness. The lesson is that the one who has hurt us may not deserve it, or...

This week my husband became very ill. Immediately, we were afraid of Covid-19, of course.   I was frantic with worry since I’d spent the pre...

Of an Aesthete For love of the Cleveland Museum of Art What the museum is not— crowding, touching, breathing sometimes, just free easy looki...

The constant belief in or search for conspiracy theories is a victim mentality. If there are forces or organizations whose sole purpose is t...

The same principle can be applied to all of our current issues: Do you care about other human beings?  If you answered yes then you must ...