AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“MELPOMENE’S SINGING PLACE” is appropriate for this week’s Music Therapy Day, March 1. Melpomene was always the Greek muse of song. After the rise of Greek theater, she also became associated with tragedy. The poem reflects the author’s fondness for the stories of Greek and Roman mythology. Found among the author’s papers, this verse (newly edited for this release) was possibly written while the author was a teenager mourning the loss of her father.

KALEIDOSCOPE—a series by Kathleen Roxby

“NOT PROS AND CONS, JUST CON CONFUSION” is another in the author’s essays on the idioscyncasies of the English language. The essay is included this week for National Grammar Day, March 1.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“A LITTLE TRANSCENDING MELODY” describes one way the author coped with aspects of her depression as a teenager. It is included this week for March 1, World Music Therapy Day.