Vicki Vaneck Hill

Pendemic Word Crochet (eBook, ePUB)

2020 Poems Hooked and Booked

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

As a poem-packrat bride I vetoed merging newlywed life with writing . Groom Lou encouraged converting poems jotted on bank receipts, envelope flaps, forgotten locations, computer files, journals. {He's featured in poems of happiness not grief/ 2009 widowhood/abandonment, praise/ comforting prayers).A 2018 surgery recuperation overlapped 2019-20 Covid home isolation. Lou insisted I quit delaying grasp a long-ago publication vision as his life changed radically surviving the Widowmaker heart attack. Our homebound honeymoon is bizarrely prolonged .

Thanks to Master Mechanic/Photographer/Helpmate gem spouse Lou Quondamatteo, Jr; the late Bob Dahl for his wiles to turn paper shards into kintsugi*. To heaven's dearest rag-stabbers, Aunts Jo VanEck (sympathy pains at my birth) and Theresa VanEck Mak (I her Junior Bride, dubbed "1st kid" through 8 miscarriages before 4 children). Both aunts now are tailors to heavenly hosts. Also to my gone-too-soon Aunt Doris Mak, my 2-year "roomie" in Chicago home while a Moody Bible Institute student. I weekended at her North Side apartment before she moved to California, scarce years later to eternity. They with so many teachers mentors-Jack Ridl--encouraging me to publish

*kintsugi: Japanese art of Golden Repair, a poem within this book.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: WestBow Press
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Februar 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781664251861
• Artikelnr.: 69325793

Autorenporträt

A self-taught reader at 3, the Author began to write early, too, on scraps of paper collected by an uncle with Parkinson's in 1950s. English teacher and ESL tutor, she launched Kent County, MI, Head Start Family Literacy for 1400+ families; wrote professionally for prominent businesses, church coalitions, local governments. grants.