My personal thanks to Sage Sweetwater who befriended and encouraged me with her reviews, “Joyce’s poems are really good…Feminist godly mythology… sensuous, of love, of women and addictive, competitive drama…Angel-bearing wings, Joyce White’s poetry flies above life’s fault line.” Of my book, Sculpting the Heart with Art Therapy E-book, she says, “this book is about [...]
Unaware of the gazing sun’s effect on his recently discovered disguise, Mungai moved closer to the pack. In the ever increasing heat of the second day, the dung had started to harden and began making a crackling sound as he moved. Each crunching, faltering step he took sounded like a predator crushing the bones of [...]
Life is amazing and what it holds for us is often unpredictable, sometimes unexpected but extremely precious. It is the hope of every woman to have a child to love, nurture and create in her own image or fashion. Children are unique and each has their own special talents, which they present, to the world [...]
When I went to a church for lessons to make my communion a nun carried a stick, at her side, pointed it at anyone who did something God did not like.
Mungai and the Goa Constrictor is a finely crafted fable that can be enjoyed by older children and adults alike. As in most classic fables, we live the bulk of the story through the animals, in this case those of the woodland and jungle, but there are a few two-legs, as the animals refer to [...]
Chapter One – The Encounter Mungai lived all alone in the jungle. He hadn’t always lived alone but he was such a dreadful creature at times that those who once cared for him decided he should leave and never return. He was considered ‘bestia non grata’ in most of the places he’d ever [...]
They say you have children not sighted – but blind – The say you have children protected, and kind. And your children are gifted, but you haven’t the time. You won’t take a day to be sighted, not blind. They have their senses – transformed it to love a touch and a feeling, an archive [...]
NOTE: Here’s the beginning of a fun fanciful story of Christmas magic for children of all ages from 5 to 95. “Can two lowly fishermen save the Queen, her daughters and Christmas?” * Caryn’s Magic Towne – Chapter One * A small village in a remote corner of Caryn’s imagination where, once a year, the [...]
This short excerpt takes you into the mind of a child during the fifties and sixties. “Children are from Heaven” is my working novel, a true story with a Universal theme. You will follow a child in her normal routine, and think as she does day to day, bringing you back to your day as a child, or someone you know.
When you were a child, did you have someone you idolized? Someone you looked up to. Someone you felt could protect you. Who was your hero when you were a child? Was it Batman, Spiderman or a mortal man you idolized? Now that you are all grown up, do you still have a hero in [...]
