When I heard this song several years ago on the radio show, A Prairie Home Companion, it was as if my late husband were singing it to me. It inspired me to write the following poem, which was published in my collection, That’s Life: New and Selected Poems, published in 2014 by Finishing Line Press. Please click the Play button below to hear me recite it and sing this song.
WORDS FROM A LOVED ONE’S GRAVE
Everywhere you are,
I will always be with you,
watching from above.
Every time you breathe,
every decision you make,
I’ll know about it
and love you even more.
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New! The Red Dress
Copyright July 2019 by DLD Books
When Eve went to her high school senior prom, she wore a red dress that her mother had made for her. That night, after dancing with the boy of her dreams, she caught him in the act with her best friend. Months later, Eve, a freshman in college, is bullied into giving the dress to her roommate. After her mother finds out, their relationship is never the same again.
Twenty-five years later, Eve, a bestselling author, is happily married with three children. Although her mother suffers from dementia, she still remembers, and Eve still harbors the guilt for giving the dress away. When she receives a Facebook friend request from her old college roommate and an invitation to her twenty-five-year high school class reunion, then meets her former best friend by chance, she must confront the past in order to face the future.
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