Although my primary occupation is the field of music—piano teacher, church organist/music director, and public school music teacher—I have been writing poetry since childhood. A shy, sensitive child, I entertained myself by playing piano, writing songs with and without words, and reading every poem in the entire encyclopedia set, “The Book of Knowledge.” My elementary teachers fed my love for poetry and my need for creative expression. I think that music and poetry are sisters in the family of aesthet more...
