After having a surgery, a few days later I caught this hospital born pneumonia called MRSA, then septic shock, respiratory distress syndrome, twenty-seven chest tubes, as my lungs continued to collapse under the high ventilator settings, I was in a coma for three and a half months and had eight...
I always have many extra copies of my photographs as family members will ask for them, so I started to stuff them in a draw in my living room. Overtime the draw got stuffed with photos. And one day I had a peculiar event happen, and this is the poem I came up with. Hope you enjoy it. Ellen
This is taken from my diary about five or six years ago and really shows what life can be like on an alpaca farm and this day turned out to be a short story I decided to write as with breeding and farming animals, no day is the same and you never know what's going to happen that day. Some days...
This is a poem written about life, I put it together from a diary I read from when I was a teen and I had pieces of theses sentences and questions written all over, as writers often do as I thought eventually I'd have a poem. I was just starting my life - the summer in-between high school and...
When I was 13 my parents out of no where told us they were divorcing. I idolized my father and he pretty much disappeared as he started dating and at first it wasn't that bad he bought a house not that far away and I felt it was my second home and I loved being there with him. Then he married and...
Dealing with the loss of a pet is very difficult. This poem may help you with your loss or a friend who just went through a loss of a pet. We also had a dog stolen and I am guilt ridden I didn't have her micro chipped. Get your pets micro chipped! Ode to an Old Dog, is my tribute to our...
As a photographer, I am writing this article in the least technical way for you to take great photo's whatever the occasion may be. The simple do's and don't, that don't come with the camera and some tricks of the trade. With practice and not much but, with it each photo will get the desired...
This is a story about a new born alpaca named Jeffery that I delivered on our breeding farm and he took me and many others on an incredible journey. Even if you are not an animal person I think you'll enjoy the humanity and the story. Thank you!
This is a Poem I wrote while spending a night with insomnia, which has happened often. I usually can't wait for the first birds to chirp because I know the sky will be lightening up soon and all will be good. This poem has a fun play on words. Hope you enjoy it. Not the Insomnia.