Down by the River: Poetry of Many Moods

These are some of the things I think of when I'm sitting by the Flat River in beautiful Lowell, Michigan feeding the ducks and swans or walking through the Wittenbach woods with my husband. Believe it or not, I'm not ALWAYS talking.

This book is dedicated to my mother, Janet Cummings, who was the first to encourage me to become a writer. I wrote my first poem at age 5. What took me so long to publish? Stark raving fear. But God has shown me how to get past that with a husband (Michael Gen...