AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“DREAMLAND BAY” is included this week for “Just Because Day,” August 27. In scrapbook from her teenage years, the author pasted a magazine’s picture of a sailing ship with caption “Dreamland Bay.” The idea of traveling to far away places fascinated the author.

KALEIDOSCOPE–an essay by Kathleen Roxby

“WHERE ARE THE ELEGANT WORDS?” speaks of the author’s fascination with words and also those of her mother who shared her love of the written word with the author beginning in childhood, reading her classic poems at bedtime.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“TO RIDE WITH THE WILD ONES” is included this week for National Ride With The Wind Day, August 23. The poem was inspired when she attended a local poetry group (Poetry Zone) reading where many of the poets shared adventure poems.