Reflections: Poetry, Essays, Flash Fiction, and Short Stories

Writing comes from the head but is born in the heart. Our hopes, joys, and sadness all find their way onto the page sculpted by our own experience. Friendship, love, loss, grief, decisions made, dreams extinguished, plans realized -these shape our lives and define who we are.

This book is a reflection of my years as a print and broadcast journalist, copy editor, fiction writer, and occasional poet. Many subjects on these pages spring from personal experience.

The poems come from times of won...