Jean D Johnson: 2 books

When I lost my mother, I was advised to write letters to her. When I found this too difficult to do, the poetry about grief and my sadness over losing my mother just came naturally to me - almost as if Mom was working through me somehow. I wrote many poems during the first year after losing Mom, and...

Quite a while ago, I asked my mother to fill out a store-bought book about her life. You know, the ones that are called, "Mother's Remembrances" or some such thing? Several years before Mom died, she surprised me with a huge scrapbook of her life from birth through adulthood and into her retirement...