by: Shirley Satterfield Really Livin 🏡 If you’re sittin on the porch and soaking up the sun, And having small talk fun With a dear loved one, You’re...

by: Shirley Satterfield The Godsends 🦅 🦅 🦅 🎨 God sends His birds every morning, Blue birds And red birds, Black birds and brown, Then multicolored birds, bright, As if...

Hey you, have you ever had your heart broken? Don't answer that. It may surprise you but it is one cliche that sinks in...

The Hebrew scriptures teach that there is a season for everything and a new season is dawning in my life, retirement. I have a...

by: Shirley Satterfield The Rest of God 🕊 I do believe In the serendipitous will of God, Supernatural steps firmly ordered By the Lord through A life in His accord. These...

How Wise Reader's Interpret Poetry We are moving a bit from the biographies of great poets and authors to the interpretation of their works, although...

by: Shirley Satterfield The Black Sand Beach 🏝 🔥 I was at a black sand beach, At the very shoreline Where liquid fire lapped my feet. But God rescued...

Being thankful for all that God has done and will still do is necessary. You may not know how it faces degradation everyday but...

by: Shirley Satterfield Low Self Esteem🫂 (It’s Mental Health Awarenss Month) What is low self esteem but the flip side of pride? What is pride but the flip...

by: Shirley Satterfield Social Anxiety Oh my, I feel like a grasshopper in a field full of praying-mantis, Statuesque, tall insects towering over me in their eerie magnificence. I feel...

It always helps an author in his or her quest to market books to earn credentials and win accolades since reputation and creditability for...

by: Shirley Satterfield Poetry’s Key 🔑 The Lord has marked me for life, somehow, For first He baptized me Into the wrath of man, And then into His...

Rudyard Kipling: The Empire's Anglo-Indian Writer Indian born, British citizen Rudyard Kipling was an imperialist leaning writer which makes him controversial in our own post...

by: Shirley Satterfield Glow Trees 🌳 Glow trees standing tall in all their green glory Have such a compelling his and her story. Standing stoically against the...

by: Shirley Satterfield The Porcelain Painted sky Behold the porcelain painted sky. I’m not to shy to cry for the porcelain painted sky. Tears of joy flowing down For...

There are two main factors in the making of a good book; plot (which has already been dealt with in this column) and characterization....

by: Shirley Satterfield My Day by Day Future 🙏 You are my only hope, Oh Lord, for my day by day future. Help me to walk in...

by: Shirley Satterfield I stand helpless In the shadow of my shadow self, Oh, Lord. Save me to the quick of me, And make me resilient in the storm Like...