A child learns strength from it’s Mother, For a Mother’s love never quavers, It grows abundantly, never ending. A Father’s love is guiding, Aiding one much in discernment, loyalty and respect, It shows a splendor of forms, mostly tranquil. A friend’s love aids in compassion, Compassion in listening and generosity. A friend’s love is loyal, [...]
Hello, some people have wondered why I chose to write fiction about the Eastern Shore of Maryland. The easy answer is that I live here. I moved here nearly 18 years ago and never found reason to leave. Oh yes, there are things I love and things I dislike about the place – but you [...]
Life does not always follow the blueprint that we created for ourselves nor does it always yield the end result that we want. On vacation Nancy and her husband Barry are enjoying their trip, hiking and spending time with Sara and her new husband. For absolutely no rime or reason things happen that will change [...]
Remember the days of ice skating at a neighborhood pond? I recall wearing ugly brown straps over white skates and sitting alone at the edge of the pond, etching in snow.
If you ever stood around a camp fire, making a circle with others while holding a stick – on a cold night in the mountains among tall pines; eyes concentrating on the flames – still waiting – and counting.
When she had died I had forgotten everything: all I had ever reproached her, all what had ever made me mad with anger, only a heavy remorse kicked in – why I didn’t allow her to see me regularly all those years, and in the end, why I got mad to such an extent that [...]
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 [...]
I ponder today on how she did it, raised us both on her own. Little help? She had family that put money in her drawers. I will never forget the time she could not afford to pay for tuition and all of a sudden ten grand appearred in a drawer the very next day. I [...]
I am who I am. I can’t be who you want me to be. DNA unlike any other; I’m an original. God only created one of me. Pre-tense is only temporary. Who I am is reality. Your opinion is just your perception of me. Get to know the true me and not just what you see. I can’t [...]
Things sure have changed since I was a kid. Nowadays they buckle up for safety and sit in the back seat in a special booster chair complete with belly pad, plush seat cover, head pillow and three position crotch strap. I remember standing up on the front seat of our Ford Fairlane, next to my [...]
