Reflections from Women

Thank you!                   

In recognition of our authors:

We are grateful to share the wonderful collection of essays and poems from our 85 authors in the Reflections from Women series. 

Congratulations and thank you to all authors!

(For more information about an author, click on the name of our authors who have websites or blogs.)

Book I (2010)

When One Door Closes:

Reflections from Women on Life's Turning Points 

• Paula Andresen--Remembering Mary
• Vickie Andresen Sedillo--Paula
• Tamara Bastone--Letter to My Mother
• Michelle Bessette--Extra Baggage
• Rene Brannen--Losing My Religion
• Joy Brubaker--When the Baby Died
• Mary Martha Christianson--David and Mom
• Alice Coggin Bagley--I’m Here
• Cynthia Colebrook--Topaz
• Elizabeth A. Coplan--What's Your Problem, Mom?
• Brenda Dronkers--My Crisis Transformed
• Cara Evans--The Claw Foot
• Edie Fisher--A Letter to My First Love
• Karen Francis--Winter Solstice
• Clara Freeman--Second Time Around
• Doreen Garrigan--Roundabout Way to Becoming Me
• Maryellen Grady--Transformation
• Katie Ford Hall--Resurfacing
• Emily Harris--Two a Day
• Carol Kabakoff--This Story has a Happy Ending
• Karen Kidwell--Hand Me Down
• Misty Kiwak Jacobs—A trilogy of poems
• Misty Kiwak Jacobs—One White Towel
• Kelli Kirwan--Traveling the Matriarchal Path
• Rebecca J. Love--Shopping in the Sperm Aisle
• Rebecca J. Love--Class Questions
• Andrea MacEachern--Christmas Heartache
• Jeannie Martinelli--Cheri
• KC McClain--A Life Changing Decision Point
• Marissa McNamara--Heading North
• Minerva--The Turning Point
• Laura Morey--Thank You, Midnight
• Janice Moszynski--Journey into Light
• Marykay Mulligan--The Day the Sun Shined Again
• Melinda Nagle--Life
• Margo Pierce--Ending the Tyranny of ‘Supposed To’
• Alicia Powers--The Way of the Wounded Healer
• Anne Richardson--Misery Optional
• Hanan Rose--Departure
• Kate Sheckler--The Mechanics of Destiny
• Mary Scribner--The Teen Years--Can a Steel Stud Look Like a Pimple?
• Nancy Smith--Black Rock
• Laura Sommers—Oops!
• Lana Swearingen—Don
• Linda Tefend--Taming the Monster
• Kelli Trinoskey--Mom, Interrupted
• Nancy Turner—Crash
• Vicki Trusley--Ending the Waking Nightmare
• Va Vang--A New Challenge
• Cassie Walker--Gone
• Erin Wilson--Biology
• Sandra F Wilson--Reflections of May
• Anonymous--Falling
• Anonymous--true love in the present moment

Book II (2011)

The Moment I Knew:

Reflections from Women

On Life's Defining Moments

• Nadia Ali:The Bump & Me
• Tammy Gail Backlund: Choices
• Susan Black:  How Detachment Changes Everything
• Lisa Clark: The Cost of a Sweater
• Alice Coggin Bagley: The Other Side of the Doors
• Donna Donabella: Grief/The Pain of Death
• Kimberly L. Evans: What I Gave to the Fire
• Janel Bongiorno Field: Gale Force Wind  
• Lisa Ford: One Punch
• Rene Graham: Mrs. Brown’s Daughter
• Jennifer Graves: Going Home
• Tami Herzer-Absi: Last Call for Musicians
• Brenda Joyce: The Labyrinth’s Path
• Surinder Kaur Saeltzer: My Sikh Mother and I
• Kate Lacey: The Strangers Inside Me
• Mimi LaFrancis: That Smile
• Corbin Lewars: Good Enough for Whom?
• Rebecca Love: When the Music Dies
• Rachel Malis: The Rationale
• Beth Myers: Road Kill
• Stephanie Ng: An Indelible Imprint
• Cynthia L. Pauwels: Powerful Eyes of Love
• Grace Peterson: This One’s on Me
• Nadya Petkova: The Letter
• Alison Popple: The Gift of True Love
• Connie M. Rushman: A Short Memoir of my Mother
• Bonnie Skinner Crow: Gone Forever
• Deborah Starling-Pollard: When Life Gets In the Way
• Noelle Sterne: Birthday Wish
• Elizabeth Willse: Complete Unknowns and Rolling Stones

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