Getting Acquainted
I spend most of my time playing alpha female for my pack of dogs. Lucy (Boston terrier), Harley (chihuahua). Hershey (miniature dachshund) and Jasper (standard schnauzer) are my entertainment and sometimes muses. Jasper is a puppy mill rescue dog and I'm in the intital stages of writing a series of vignettes of his life since the rescue contrasted with eduaction about rescues and puppy mills. I do actually have other interests than writing and my dogs. I love to scrapbook, watch ice hockey, listen to a variety of music genres and reading. My parents both were avid readers and passed that love on to me. I'll read a cereal box if you set it in front of me!
Glancing Back
Glancing Back

Glancing back upon my life
and all my childhood dreams,
The wonder and the magic
are lost to me it seems.

Fairy tales I clung to so
believed that they were true,
Innocently I held to them,
then from a child I grew.

Soon I turned to drugs and drink
to ease my soul of pain.
The pace of it became too much
and life, from me, drained.

Now I sit and look back upon
all my days gone by.
I wonder where time has gone,
then heave a heavy sigh.

Did I heed the lessons
of all I need to learn?
What about the bridges--
the ones that I have burned?

I find I've yet much to give,
so much to do and see.
I'm not through with life just yet,
to sit and let it be.
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