An anthology of short stories and inspirational poetry
Busy with all the changes in my life, starting a new job, transferring my classes to distance education and learning to schedule time for both was not going to be easy, but it could be managed with planning and care. I went to check the mail and received a large brown envelope from the college. What could it be, maybe more forms to sign? I had thought I had sent back everything, but what was inside brought tears to my eyes.
It was about the essay contest “Why Valley College” I had entered. Surprised! Indeed, I sat on my porch steps not wanting to wait another moment to read the letter inside. It read I was the first place winner and enclosed was a beautiful award certificate, a check for one-hundred dollars and a congratulation letter to my accomplishments
Excerpt
(To become a writer someday, be published and give to the world comfort and happiness through words would be one of my dreams come true.)
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Reviews for "Mountains of Treasure in the Blue Ridge"
This book of poetry and short stories will give the reader a look in to the reason of the poetry and how a poem was given life..the idea and the love for what is written. The love of a mother and children, the care for others who have been given the news of cancer and the hope for all the wonderful tomorrows yet to be.
Reviewed by Annemarie Collins
1/30/2007
I used to have 10 of her books and all are gone! My friends bought them for their friends and so on and on... I marvel at the author's ability to touch the reader and put smiles on ours faces, as well as
tears into our eyes. Simply heart-warming and consoling. We are all
waiting for more...
“The woman or man who is a poet, or fiction writer, or playwright, or all of these, is engaged constantly in a jazz ballet of vocabularies, passions, genders, histories, perspectives, death, love, and life. The music of revelation announces itself to
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