AUTHOR NOTES

GLASS RAIN—the poetry by Margaret Roxby

“ETERNAL CYCLE” was found in the poet’s papers. It appears this week along with “Lyric for Weekdays,” and even the essay featured in Kaleidoscope because they all in one way or another reflect how cycles, repetitions, affect our lives.

KALEIDOSCOPE— essays by Kathleen Roxby

“THE CURSE OF TEACHING ENGLISH” is a recent essay prompted as she says by a poem she found when searching the web. Her years as an English teacher in junior high school, as well as the early at home training she received from her mother, robbed her of the flexibility to accept what she continues to view as errors in speech.

THROUGH THE LOOKING GLASS—the poetry of Kathleen Roxby

“LYRIC FOR WEEKDAYS” was chosen to accompany “Eternal Cycle.”  It is the author’s attempt to update the nursery rhyme/song she learned from her grandmother.