Happy Hello Dear Readers!

Happiness IS completely finishing a book!! The index was submitted September 2. It will not be long now and my 11th book (10 with McFarland), Women of Afghanistan in the Post - Taliban Era: How Lives Have Changed and Where They Stand Today, will be published. So, I’m now back to writing my memoirs and working on my nearly 20 year old manuscript of a novel.

POETRY

Although I do not claim to be a poet, I do enjoy dabbling in it. For the second time, I have found one of my poems (with credit given to me) on the Internet combined with another art form. In December of 2007, I mentioned in a Newsletter an artist's interpretation of my poem, "Through the Glass," at this link where a photograph is used: http://www.flickr.com:80/photos/jmbo82/984900487/in/set - 72157601115895189/.

Recently, my poem, “Old Shoes,” appears on the Flickr web site at: http://flickr.com/photos/piggiboo/2284443480/. The web site is designed to share photos and is the same web site that featured my poem, “Through the Glass.”

Enjoy.

Cheers! R