Poetry Essays

Listeners looking for an engaging and spiritual journey will find comfort in Cairn: Poems and Essays. After decades of reading and ogling poetry, Miller made room among the novels, newspaper columns, and preaching to hone poems amidst the wild beauty of northernmost Vermont, and the pastoral beauty of the Finger Lakes. Many will find the poems worthy of weddings, funerals, and letters to dear friends.

Tough Love is a collection of 101 short stories, essays, and insights to improve communication skills. Knowledge which has the most practical value is not easy to learn because it challenges a lot of pre-existing paradigms. Therefore, Tough Love introduces the listener to knowledge that will lead to becoming a high valued member of society to create a long-lasting legacy.

In this new collection of poems, essays, and flash fiction, the author once again exhibits her ability to write about both the light and dark sides of life. There are numerous poems and stories about nature: its kindness, cruelty, and wonder. There are frank expressions of the sadness and frustration she felt at the progressive loss of her eyesight and a poem about the social isolation that disability can bring. Other pieces, though, sing of joys as diverse as family closeness, the love of dogs, the delights of scents, and the power of the muse.