can now be ordered from wherever books are sold...
can now be ordered from wherever books are sold...
WHY did I write a children's book?
1) This was the book I needed as a kid!
2) This is the message we ALL need!
3) People need help right now, especially kids (it’s really for any age!!).
3) I was an elementary teacher for 30+ years.
4) I worked as a play therapist with homicidal & suicidal preschoolers and, before that, at a residential treatment center for teen girls. See Blog: Souls I am Grateful for.
Shop My Books
Jews in the Garden: A Holocaust Survivor, the Fate of his Family, and the Secret History of Poland in WWII, Judy Rakowsky, Sourcebooks, 2023.
Tom Lake, Ann Patchett, Harper, 2023.
Twenty to Life: Essays on a Man’s Journey to Change Throughout his Incarceration, David Steece, Idaho Prison Arts Collective, 2022.
Survived by, Anne Marie Wells, Curious Corvid, 2023.
In Your Bones: Poems of Radical Forgiveness, Dena Duke, 2020.
The Fourth Wing (Empyrean #1), Rebecca Ybarra, Entangled: Red Tower Books, 2023
When Women Were Dragons, Kelly Barnhill, Doubleday, 2022.
Lessons in Chemistry, Bonnie Garmus, Doubleday, 2022.
Rediscovered Books Boise Weekly Top 10 7/31 - 8/6/2023
savoring the small moments
Tiny Lights: Small Poems for Big Moments is about the collective joy to be found in small things that lead to healing and/or life-changing moments. It sheds light on how to find inspiration in bringing together the bits and pieces of a life to tell the bigger story of who we are. It is a call to use smaller moments as portals to greater insight, love, and light. This second collection of poetry follows In Your Bones.
“We either own our stories or they own us. Only when we have the courage to own our history are we able to write a brave new ending to our story. This is true in our lives, our families, our communities, and our country.”
—Brené Brown
the power of letting go
My first book of poetry, In Your Bones: Poems of Radical Forgiveness, is a collection of poetry about raw pain and finding my way through it.
It is a book that demonstrates the triumph of shedding layers, letting go, and ultimately, standing strong on my own two feet. These are words of healing, forgiveness, and hope. Find the backstory in the blog entitled: Thanks 2020!
This website, atinylight.com, was published on September 1, 2020, to explain and share the journey of making In Your Bones with the world and to spread more of the light and healing that it represents. It was updated in November 2021 to encompass a growing need to incorporate more of the steps taken on this journey and share it so that others might have access to more healing and love in their own lives in an effort to bring more of those things into an ailing world.
In Your Bones: Poems of Radical Forgiveness was published in May 2020. Check out Thanks, 2020! on the blog page for the backstory on how it came about. It was the inspiration behind this website and remains the backbone of my healing journey.
Speaking of healing, copies of this book have been donated to the Women and Children’s Alliance and Faces of Hope in Boise, Idaho. Thank you to Carrie Prange, Carolyn Warner, and the Southminster Presbyterian Women’s Association for help in this endeavor. Some have also made their way into the Idaho Women’s Prison. And thanks to Burton and Julia Karas Parker for helping donate books for the library at Willow Domestic Violence Center in Lawrence, Kansas in honor of MRH Parker. See the video below to catch my chat with Willow Director of Communications, Will Averill, on their “Monday Meets” Facebook Live Event…
ALSO AVAILABLE AT Rediscovered Books in Boise (and wherever books are sold)!
Here is my nephew, Burton Parker, handing over a donation for their library to the Willow Domestic Violence Center in Lawrence, Kansas.
A Facebook Live chat happened about the book on March 1, 2021! Check out the video below!!
